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opensearch

You can use the opensearch sink plugin to send data to an OpenSearch cluster, a legacy Elasticsearch cluster, or an Amazon OpenSearch Service domain.

The plugin supports OpenSearch 1.0 and later and Elasticsearch 7.3 and later.

Usage

To configure an opensearch sink, specify the opensearch option within the pipeline configuration:

pipeline:
  ...
  sink:
    opensearch:
      hosts: ["https://localhost:9200"]
      cert: path/to/cert
      username: YOUR_USERNAME
      password: YOUR_PASSWORD
      index_type: trace-analytics-raw
      dlq_file: /your/local/dlq-file
      max_retries: 20
      bulk_size: 4

To configure an Amazon OpenSearch Service sink, specify the domain endpoint as the hosts option, as shown in the following example:

pipeline:
  ...
  sink:
    opensearch:
      hosts: ["https://your-amazon-opensearch-service-endpoint"]
      aws_sigv4: true
      cert: path/to/cert
      insecure: false
      index_type: trace-analytics-service-map
      bulk_size: 4

Configuration options

The following table describes options you can configure for the opensearch sink.

Option Required Type Description
hosts Yes List List of OpenSearch hosts to write to (for example, ["https://localhost:9200", "https://remote-cluster:9200"]).
cert No String Path to the security certificate (for example, "config/root-ca.pem") if the cluster uses the OpenSearch Security plugin.
username No String Username for HTTP basic authentication.
password No String Password for HTTP basic authentication.
aws_sigv4 No Boolean Default value is false. Whether to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) signing to connect to an Amazon OpenSearch Service domain. For your access key, secret key, and optional session token, Data Prepper uses the default credential chain (environment variables, Java system properties, ~/.aws/credential, etc.).
aws_region No String The AWS region (for example, "us-east-1") for the domain if you are connecting to Amazon OpenSearch Service.
aws_sts_role_arn No String IAM role that the plugin uses to sign requests sent to Amazon OpenSearch Service. If this information is not provided, the plugin uses the default credentials.
max_retries No Integer The maximum number of times the OpenSearch sink should try to push data to the OpenSearch server before considering it to be a failure. Defaults to Integer.MAX_VALUE. If not provided, the sink will try to push data to the OpenSearch server indefinitely because the default value is high and exponential backoff would increase the waiting time before retry.
socket_timeout No Integer The timeout, in milliseconds, waiting for data to return (or the maximum period of inactivity between two consecutive data packets). A timeout value of zero is interpreted as an infinite timeout. If this timeout value is negative or not set, the underlying Apache HttpClient would rely on operating system settings for managing socket timeouts.
connect_timeout No Integer The timeout in milliseconds used when requesting a connection from the connection manager. A timeout value of zero is interpreted as an infinite timeout. If this timeout value is negative or not set, the underlying Apache HttpClient would rely on operating system settings for managing connection timeouts.
insecure No Boolean Whether or not to verify SSL certificates. If set to true, certificate authority (CA) certificate verification is disabled and insecure HTTP requests are sent instead. Default value is false.
proxy No String The address of a forward HTTP proxy server. The format is “<host name or IP>:<port>”. Examples: “example.com:8100”, “http://example.com:8100”, “112.112.112.112:8100”. Port number cannot be omitted.
index Conditionally String Name of the export index. Applicable and required only when the index_type is custom.
index_type No String This index type tells the Sink plugin what type of data it is handling. Valid values: custom, trace-analytics-raw, trace-analytics-service-map, management-disabled. Default value is custom.
template_type No String Defines what type of OpenSearch template to use. The available options are v1 and index-template. The default value is v1, which uses the original OpenSearch templates available at the _template API endpoints. The index-template option uses composable index templates which are available through OpenSearch’s _index_template API. Composable index types offer more flexibility than the default and are necessary when an OpenSearch cluster has already existing index templates. Composable templates are available for all versions of OpenSearch and some later versions of Elasticsearch. When distribution_version is set to es6, Data Prepper enforces the template_type as v1.
template_file No String The path to a JSON index template file such as /your/local/template-file.json when index_type is set to custom. For an example template file, see otel-v1-apm-span-index-template.json. If you supply a template file it must match the template format specified by the template_type parameter.
document_id_field No String The field from the source data to use for the OpenSearch document ID (for example, "my-field") if index_type is custom.
dlq_file No String The path to your preferred dead letter queue file (for example, /your/local/dlq-file). Data Prepper writes to this file when it fails to index a document on the OpenSearch cluster.
dlq No N/A DLQ configurations. See Dead Letter Queues for details. If the dlq_file option is also available, the sink will fail.
bulk_size No Integer (long) The maximum size (in MiB) of bulk requests sent to the OpenSearch cluster. Values below 0 indicate an unlimited size. If a single document exceeds the maximum bulk request size, Data Prepper sends it individually. Default value is 5.
ism_policy_file No String The absolute file path for an ISM (Index State Management) policy JSON file. This policy file is effective only when there is no built-in policy file for the index type. For example, custom index type is currently the only one without a built-in policy file, thus it would use the policy file here if it’s provided through this parameter. For more information, see ISM policies.
number_of_shards No Integer The number of primary shards that an index should have on the destination OpenSearch server. This parameter is effective only when template_file is either explicitly provided in Sink configuration or built-in. If this parameter is set, it would override the value in index template file. For more information, see Create index.
number_of_replicas No Integer The number of replica shards each primary shard should have on the destination OpenSearch server. For example, if you have 4 primary shards and set number_of_replicas to 3, the index has 12 replica shards. This parameter is effective only when template_file is either explicitly provided in Sink configuration or built-in. If this parameter is set, it would override the value in index template file. For more information, see Create index.
distribution_version No String Indicates whether the sink backend version is Elasticsearch 6 or later. es6 represents Elasticsearch 6. default represents the latest compatible backend version, such as Elasticsearch 7.x, OpenSearch 1.x, or OpenSearch 2.x. Default is default.
enable_request_compression No Boolean Whether to enable compression when sending requests to OpenSearch. When distribution_version is set to es6, default is false. For all other distribution versions, default is true.
serverless No Boolean Determines whether the OpenSearch backend is Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. Set this value to true when the destination for the opensearch sink is an Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collection. Default is false.
serverless_options No Object The network configuration options available when the backend of the opensearch sink is set to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. For more information, see Serverless options.

Serverless options

The following options can be used in the serverless_options object.

Option Required Type Description
network_policy_name Yes String The name of the network policy to create.
collection_name Yes String The name of the Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collection to configure.
vpce_id Yes String The virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint to which the source connects.

Configure max_retries

You can include the max_retries option in your pipeline configuration to control the number of times the source tries to write to sinks with exponential backoff. If you don’t include this option, pipelines keep retrying forever.

If you specify max_retries and a pipeline has a dead-letter queue (DLQ) configured, the pipeline will keep trying to write to sinks until it reaches the maximum number of retries, at which point it starts to send failed data to the DLQ.

If you don’t specify max_retries, only data that is rejected by sinks is written to the DLQ. Pipelines continue to try to write all other data to the sinks.

OpenSearch cluster security

In order to send data to an OpenSearch cluster using the opensearch sink plugin, you must specify your username and password within the pipeline configuration. The following example pipelines.yaml file demonstrates how to specify admin security credentials:

sink:
  - opensearch:
      username: "admin"
      password: "admin"
      ...

Alternately, rather than admin credentials, you can specify the credentials of a user mapped to a role with the minimum permissions listed in the following sections.

Cluster permissions

  • cluster_all
  • indices:admin/template/get
  • indices:admin/template/put

Index permissions

  • Index: otel-v1*; Index permission: indices_all
  • Index: .opendistro-ism-config; Index permission: indices_all
  • Index: *; Index permission: manage_aliases

For instructions on how to map users to roles, see Map users to roles.

Amazon OpenSearch Service domain security

The opensearch sink plugin can send data to an Amazon OpenSearch Service domain, which uses IAM for security. The plugin uses the default credential chain. Run aws configure using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to set your credentials.

Make sure the credentials that you configure have the required IAM permissions. The following domain access policy demonstrates the minimum required permissions:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::<AccountId>:user/data-prepper-user"
      },
      "Action": "es:ESHttp*",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:es:us-east-1:<AccountId>:domain/<domain-name>/otel-v1*",
        "arn:aws:es:us-east-1:<AccountId>:domain/<domain-name>/_template/otel-v1*",
        "arn:aws:es:us-east-1:<AccountId>:domain/<domain-name>/_plugins/_ism/policies/raw-span-policy",
        "arn:aws:es:us-east-1:<AccountId>:domain/<domain-name>/_alias/otel-v1*",
        "arn:aws:es:us-east-1:<AccountId>:domain/<domain-name>/_alias/_bulk"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::<AccountId>:user/data-prepper-user"
      },
      "Action": "es:ESHttpGet",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:es:us-east-1:<AccountId>:domain/<domain-name>/_cluster/settings"
    }
  ]
}

For instructions on how to configure the domain access policy, see Resource-based policies in the Amazon OpenSearch Service documentation.

Fine-grained access control

If your OpenSearch Service domain uses fine-grained access control, the opensearch sink plugin requires some additional configuration.

IAM ARN as master user

If you’re using an IAM Amazon Resource Name (ARN) as the master user, include the aws_sigv4 option in your sink configuration:

...
sink:
    opensearch:
      hosts: ["https://your-fgac-amazon-opensearch-service-endpoint"]
      aws_sigv4: true

Run aws configure using the AWS CLI to use the master IAM user credentials. If you don’t want to use the master user, you can specify a different IAM role using the aws_sts_role_arn option. The plugin will then use this role to sign requests sent to the domain sink. The ARN that you specify must be included in the domain access policy.

Master user in the internal user database

If your domain uses a master user in the internal user database, specify the master username and password as well as the aws_sigv4 option:

sink:
    opensearch:
      hosts: ["https://your-fgac-amazon-opensearch-service-endpoint"]
      aws_sigv4: false
      username: "master-username"
      password: "master-password"

For more information, see Recommended configurations in the Amazon OpenSearch Service documentation.

Note: You can create a new IAM role or internal user database user with the all_access permission and use it instead of the master user.

OpenSearch Serverless collection security

The opensearch sink plugin can send data to an Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collection.

OpenSearch Serverless collection sinks have the following limitations:

  • You can’t write to a collection that uses virtual private cloud (VPC) access. The collection must be accessible from public networks.
  • The OTel trace group processor doesn’t currently support collection sinks.

Creating a pipeline role

First, create an IAM role that the pipeline will assume in order to write to the collection. The role must have the following minimum permissions:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "aoss:BatchGetCollection"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

The role must have the following trust relationship, which allows the pipeline to assume it:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::<AccountId>:root"
            },
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
        }
    ]
}

Creating a collection

Next, create a collection with the following settings:

  • Public network access to both the OpenSearch endpoint and OpenSearch Dashboards.
  • The following data access policy, which grants the required permissions to the pipeline role:

    [
     {
        "Rules":[
           {
              "Resource":[
                 "index/collection-name/*"
              ],
              "Permission":[
                 "aoss:CreateIndex",
                 "aoss:UpdateIndex",
                 "aoss:DescribeIndex",
                 "aoss:WriteDocument"
              ],
              "ResourceType":"index"
           }
        ],
        "Principal":[
           "arn:aws:iam::<AccountId>:role/PipelineRole"
        ],
        "Description":"Pipeline role access"
     }
    ]
    

    Important: Make sure to replace the ARN in the Principal element with the ARN of the pipeline role that you created in the preceding step.

    For instructions on how to create collections, see Creating collections in the Amazon OpenSearch Service documentation.

Creating a pipeline

Within your pipelines.yaml file, specify the OpenSearch Serverless collection endpoint as the hosts option. In addition, you must set the serverless option to true. Specify the pipeline role in the sts_role_arn option:

log-pipeline:
  source:
    http:
  processor:
    - date:
        from_time_received: true
        destination: "@timestamp"
  sink:
    - opensearch:
        hosts: [ "https://<serverless-public-collection-endpoint>" ]
        index: "my-serverless-index"
        aws:
          serverless: true
          sts_role_arn: "arn:aws:iam::<AccountId>:role/PipelineRole"
          region: "us-east-1"