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Azure Blob Storage

Prerequisites

Setup an Event Hub to listen for Blob Create events. More information on how to set this up can be found in the Azure documentation here.

Blob Format

Stored logs and traces must be in OTLP JSON format in order to be correctly parsed by the receiver.

Supported Platforms

PlatformMetricsLogsTraces
Linux✓✓
Windows✓✓
macOS✓✓

Configuration Table

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
telemetry_typestelemetrySelector["Logs", "Traces"]Choose Telemetry Type.
connection_string*string""The connection string for the Azure Storage account. Information can be found here.
event_hub_endpoint*string""The Azure Event Hub endpoint triggering on the Blob Create events. Information can be found here.
logs_container*string"logs"Name of the Azure Storage container where logs are stored.
traces_container*string"traces"Name of the Azure Storage container where traces are stored
*required field

Example Configuration

Basic Configuration

For basic configuration only, the connection_string for Azure Storage and the event_hub_endpoint need to be supplied. In the example below, we are using a fake connection_string and event_hub_endpoint in the form Azure expects.

Web Interface

observIQ docs - Azure Blob Storage - image 1

Standalone Source

yaml
1apiVersion: bindplane.observiq.com/v1
2kind: Source
3metadata:
4  id: azure_blob
5  name: azure_blob
6spec:
7  type: azure_blob
8  parameters:
9    - name: connection_string
10      value: 'DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=accountName;AccountKey=+idLkHYcL0MUWIKYHm2j4Q==;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net'
11    - name: event_hub_endpoint
12      value: 'Endpoint=sb://oteldata.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=otelhubbpollicy;SharedAccessKey=mPJVubIK5dJ6mLfZo1ucsdkLysLSQ6N7kddvsIcmoEs=;EntityPath=otellhub'