Filter Severity

Description

The Severity Filter processor can be used to filter out logs that do not meet a given severity threshold.

Supported Types

Metrics	Logs	Traces
	✓

Configuration Table

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
severity	`enum`	`TRACE`	Minimum severity to match. Log entries with lower severities will be filtered.
condition	`string`	`true`	An OTTL expression used to match which log records to sample from. All paths in the log context are available to reference. All converters are available to use.

Valid severity levels:

TRACE
INFO
WARN
ERROR
FATAL

Example Configuration

Filter out INFO and TRACE logs where Attribute ID is less than 3.

Web Interface

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Standalone Processor

yaml

1apiVersion: bindplane.observiq.com/v1
2kind: Processor
3metadata:
4  id: severity-filter
5  name: severity-filter
6spec:
7  type: filter_severity
8  parameters:
9    - name: severity
10      value: WARN
11    - name: condition
12      value:
13        ottl: (attributes["ID"] < 3)
14        ui:
15          operator: ''
16          statements:
17            - key: ID
18              match: attributes
19              operator: <
20              value: '3'

Configuration with Embedded Processor

yaml

1apiVersion: bindplane.observiq.com/v1
2kind: Configuration
3metadata:
4  id: severity-filter
5  name: severity-filter
6  labels:
7    platform: linux
8spec:
9  sources:
10    - type: journald
11      parameters:
12        - name: units
13          value: []
14        - name: directory
15          value: ''
16        - name: priority
17          value: info
18        - name: start_at
19          value: end
20      processors:
21        - type: filter_severity
22          parameters:
23            - name: severity
24              value: WARN
25            - name: condition
26              value:
27                ottl: (attributes["ID"] < 3)
28                ui:
29                  operator: ''
30                  statements:
31                    - key: ID
32                      match: attributes
33                      operator: <
34                      value: '3'
35  selector:
36    matchLabels:
37      configuration: severity-filter

Updated 3 months ago