Parse OpenTelemetry messages

By default, AxoSyslog doesn’t parse the fields of incoming OpenTelemetry messages into name-value pairs, but are only available for forwarding using the opentelemetry() destination. To parse the fields into name-value pairs, use the opentelemetry() parser.

The opentelemetry() parser parses the fields into name-value pairs starting with the .otel. prefix.

• The type of the message is stored in the .otel.type field (possible values: log, metric, and span).
• Resource information is mapped into the .otel.resource.<...> , for example, .otel.resource.dropped_attributes_count, or .otel.resource.schema_url.
• Scope information is mapped into .otel.scope.<...>, for example, .otel.scope.name, .otel.scope.schema_url.
• The fields of log records are mapped into .otel.log.<...>, for example, .otel.log.body, .otel.log.severity_text.
• The fields of metrics are mapped into .otel.metric.<...>, for example, .otel.metric.name, .otel.metric.unit.
  • The type of the metric is mapped into .otel.metric.data.type. Possible values: gauge, sum, histogram, exponential_histogram, summary.
  • The actual data is mapped into .otel.metric.data.<type>.<...>, for example, .otel.metric.data.gauge.data_points.0.time_unix_nano.
• The fields of traces are mapped into .otel.span.<...>, for example, .otel.span.name, .otel.span.trace_state. Repeated fields have an index, for example, .otel.span.events.5.time_unix_nano.

For details on the parsed fields, you can check the OpenTelemetry proto files.

Mapping data types

String, bool, int64, double, and bytes values are mapped to their respective AxoSyslog name-value type, for example, .otel.resource.attributes.string_key becomes a string value.

The mapping of AnyValue type fields is limited.

ArrayValue and KeyValueList types are stored serialized with protobuf type. Note that protobuf and bytes types are only available, unless explicitly type cast. For example, bytes(${.otel.log.span_id}). When using template functions, use --include-bytes, for example, $(format-json .otel.* --include-bytes. In the case of $(format-json), the content is base64-encoded into the bytes content.

Options

set-hostname()

Available in AxoSyslog 4.8 and later.

Description: If set to yes, the parser extracts the host.name resource attribute if available in the message. Otherwise, it leaves the HOST field as-is.