out_loki: allow sending unquoted strings #8814
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This patch adds a third value to
drop_single_key
-raw
, which allows sending unquoted strings to Loki when using JSON as theline_format
.While yes, for the output to be valid JSON, quotes would be expected, Loki does not support reading a plain quoted string with its JSON parser, complaining that it cannot find a
}
character. Instead, you need to use a combination of regexp and line_format expressions to unquote the log before running any other parsers over it.By adding a third value of
raw
, this ensures backwards compatibility for anyone that is already relying on the existing behaviour.An example query before this change for plaintext logs, to remove the quotes:
This is necessary to add before any other parsing for non-JSON logs, such as using Loki's
logfmt
parser, as it will otherwise drop the first and last key/value pair due to the extraneous quotes. Given Loki by design does not care about the input format (there's a reason JSON parsing is optional in the first place!), I do think this should be the default behavior some day, but given the breaking nature of the change, having it as an option for now should be fine.Addresses #4353, #3005
Testing
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Note that I sent this to a fake http server instead of a Loki instance for testing, hence the 200 response. The HTTP body my server received was this:
If this is a change to packaging of containers or native binaries then please confirm it works for all targets.
ok-package-test
label to test for all targets (requires maintainer to do).Documentation
fluent/fluent-bit-docs#1368
Backporting
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