beat

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Overview

Package beat provides the functions required to manage the life-cycle of a Beat. It provides the standard mechanism for launching a Beat. It manages configuration, logging, and publisher initialization and registers a signal handler to gracefully stop the process.

Each Beat implementation must implement the `Beater` interface and a `Creator` to create and initialize the Beater instance. See the `Beater` interface and `Creator` documentation for more details.

To use this package, create a simple main that invokes the Run() function.

func main() {
	if err := beat.Run("mybeat", myVersion, beater.New); err != nil {
		os.Exit(1)
	}
}

In the example above, the beater package contains the implementation of the Beater interface and the New method returns a new instance of Beater. The Beater implementation is placed into its own package so that it can be reused or combined with other Beats.

Recommendations

• Use the logp package for logging rather than writing to stdout or stderr.
• Do not call os.Exit in any of your code. Return an error instead. Or if your code needs to exit without an error, return beat.GracefulExit.

Index

• Variables
• func AddFlagsCallback(cb func(*Beat) error)
• func AddFlagsHandler(h FlagsHandler)
• func GetDefaultVersion() string
• func Run(name, version string, bt Creator) error
• type Beat
• type BeatConfig
• type Beater
• type Creator
• type FlagsHandler
• type FlagsHandlerCallback
  • func (cb FlagsHandlerCallback) HandleFlags(b *Beat) error

Variables

var GracefulExit = errors.New("graceful exit")

GracefulExit is an error that signals to exit with a code of 0.

Functions

func AddFlagsCallback

func AddFlagsCallback(cb func(*Beat) error)

func AddFlagsHandler

func AddFlagsHandler(h FlagsHandler)

func GetDefaultVersion

func GetDefaultVersion() string

GetDefaultVersion returns the current libbeat version.

func Run

func Run(name, version string, bt Creator) error

Run initializes and runs a Beater implementation. name is the name of the Beat (e.g. packetbeat or metricbeat). version is version number of the Beater implementation. bt is the `Creator` callback for creating a new beater instance.

Types

type Beat

type Beat struct {
	Name      string              // Beat name.
	Version   string              // Beat version number. Defaults to the libbeat version when an implementation does not set a version.
	UUID      uuid.UUID           // ID assigned to a Beat instance.
	RawConfig *common.Config      // Raw config that can be unpacked to get Beat specific config data.
	Config    BeatConfig          // Common Beat configuration data.
	Publisher publisher.Publisher // Publisher
}

Beat contains the basic beat data and the publisher client used to publish events.

type BeatConfig

type BeatConfig struct {
	Shipper    publisher.ShipperConfig   `config:",inline"`
	Output     map[string]*common.Config `config:"output"`
	Logging    logp.Logging              `config:"logging"`
	Processors processors.PluginConfig   `config:"processors"`
	Path       paths.Path                `config:"path"`
	Dashboards *common.Config            `config:"dashboards"`
}

BeatConfig struct contains the basic configuration of every beat

type Beater

type Beater interface {
	// The main event loop. This method should block until signalled to stop by an
	// invocation of the Stop() method.
	Run(b *Beat) error

	// Stop is invoked to signal that the Run method should finish its execution.
	// It will be invoked at most once.
	Stop()
}

Beater is the interface that must be implemented by every Beat. A Beater provides the main Run-loop and a Stop method to break the Run-loop. Instantiation and Configuration is normally provided by a Beat-`Creator`.

Once the beat is fully configured, the Run() method is invoked. The Run()-method implements the beat its run-loop. Once the Run()-method returns, the beat shuts down.

The Stop() method is invoked the first time (and only the first time) a shutdown signal is received. The Stop()-method normally will stop the Run()-loop, such that the beat can gracefully shutdown.

type Creator

type Creator func(*Beat, *common.Config) (Beater, error)

Creator initializes and configures a new Beater instance used to execute the beat its run-loop.

type FlagsHandler

type FlagsHandler interface {
	HandleFlags(*Beat) error // Handle any custom command line arguments.
}

FlagsHandler is an interface that can optionally be implemented by a Beat if it needs to process command line flags on startup. If implemented, the HandleFlags method will be invoked after parsing the command line flags and before any of the Beater interface methods are invoked. There will be no callback when '-help' or '-version' are specified.

type FlagsHandlerCallback

type FlagsHandlerCallback func(*Beat) error

func (FlagsHandlerCallback) HandleFlags

func (cb FlagsHandlerCallback) HandleFlags(b *Beat) error