Edge Delta Streaming Features

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Features are the data types that the Edge Delta agent collects (or generates), and then sends to a streaming destination.

log

This feature type forwards raw logs to a streaming destination.

metric

This feature type sends metrics that are generated by nodes.

alert_as_event

This feature type sends an alert as an event, not as a log.

alert_as_log

This feature type sends an alert as a log, not as an event.

health

This feature type sends data regarding the health of the agent’s internal components. After an agent restarts (or reloads), data is reported every 15 seconds during the initial 2 minutes. Afterwards, data for components labeled as status: nok is reported every minute. Additionally, regardless of a component’s status, data for all components is reported every 60 minutes.

dimensions_as_attribute

This feature type sends dimension key/value pairs as attributes.

send_as_is

This feature type sends string-typed data without being wrapped with a JSON object.

send_as_json

This feature type sends data in a JSON format, which allows the fields to be auto-parsed and extracted in the streaming destination.

custom_tags

This feature type defines key-value pairs that are streamed with every request.

edac_enrichment

This feature type sends contextual logs for an anomaly (edac stands for Edge Delta Anomaly Context).

message_template

This feature type sends a message with customized content.

outgoing_bytes.sum

This feature types sends, as a metric, the sum of all data metrics that Edge Delta exposes.

outgoing_raw_bytes.sum

This feature type sends, as a metric, the sum of all raw data.

outgoing_lines.count

This feature type sends, as a metric, the count of log lines.

output_buffering_to_disk

This feature type keeps failed payloads in a filesystem and retries in the background, until a specified deadline is reached.