Azure Event Hubs destination plugin
The Azure Event Hubs destination plugin lets you configure Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline to stream your logs and metrics data directly to Azure Event Hubs.
Supported telemetry types
This plugin supports these telemetry types:
| Logs | Metrics | Traces |
|---|---|---|
Configuration parameters
Use the parameters in this section to configure your plugin. The Telemetry Pipeline web interface uses the values in the Name column to describe the parameters. Items in the Key column are the YAML keys to use in pipeline configuration files.
General
| Name | Key | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event Hub Namespace | brokers | Required. The Event Hubs namespace that can be found within the configuration settings. | none |
| Event Hub Topic | topics | Required. The Event Hubs topic to write information to. | none |
| Connection String Key | rdkafka.sasl.password | Required. The Event Hubs connection string from within the Connection Access Policy set for the source. | none |
Advanced
| Name | Key | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Message Key | message_key | Optional key to store the message. | none |
| Message Key Field | message_key_field | If set, this value indicates the message key. If not set or found in the record, message_key will be used (if set). | none |
| Timestamp Key | timestamp_key | Sets the key to store the record timestamp. | none |
| Timestamp Format | timestamp_format | Sets the timestamp format. Accepted values: double, iso8601. | double |
| Body Key | body_key | Specifies the key that contains the body. | none |
| Queue Full Retries | queue_full_retries | Telemetry Pipeline queues data into rdkafka library, if for some reason the underlying library can't flush the records the queue might fills up blocking new addition of records. The queue_full_retries option set the number of local retries to enqueue the data. The default value is 10 times, the interval between each retry is 1 second. Setting the queue_full_retries value to 0 sets an unlimited number of retries. | 10 |
| SASL Username | rdkafka.sasl.username | SASL username. | $ConnectionString |
| Security Protocol | rdkafka.security.protocol | This is the security protocol for Azure Event Hub. If you require OAuth or OpenID, open a support ticket prior to changing this setting. | SASL_SSL |
| SASL Mechanism | rdkafka.sasl.mechanism | This is the transport mechanism for the SASL connection. | PLAIN |