Examples

Examples of log patterns identified and optimized by Nimbus.

Logs with common message patterns

These are high volume log events that repeat most of their content. For most applications most of the time, this will be the primary driver of log volume. Examples include health checks and heart beat notifications.

[
  {
    "ddsource": "nodejs",
    "host": "itemrefresh-0",
    "message": "refresh item catalogue for itemId: ITEM470",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "itemrefresh",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:16:09.970Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nodejs",
    "host": "itemrefresh-0",
    "message": "refresh item catalogue for itemId: ITEM8185",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "itemrefresh",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:16:09.997Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nodejs",
    "host": "itemrefresh-0",
    "message": "refresh item catalogue for itemId: ITEM7594",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "itemrefresh",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:16:10.010Z"
  },
  // 37 more messages
  ...
]

97.5% event volume reduction
79% ingest volume reduction

{
  "ddsource": "nodejs",
  "host": "itemrefresh-0",
  "path": "/",
  "service": "itemrefresh",
  "status": "info",
  "message": [
    "refresh item catalogue for itemId: ITEM470",
    "refresh item catalogue for itemId: ITEM8185",
    "refresh item catalogue for itemId: ITEM7594",
    // 37 more messages
    ...
  ],
  "nimsize": 40,
  "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:16:09.970Z",
  "timestamp_end": "2023-11-23T00:16:11.322Z"
}

- name: itemrefresh
  type: reduce
  rules:
    process_when:
      - key: service
        op: EQUAL
        val: itemrefresh
    group_by:
      - host
      - path
    pull_up:
      - ddsource
      - path
      - status
      - service
    msg_field: message

Logs with common identifiers

These are logs that describe a sequence of related events. These sequences usually have some sort of common identifier like a transactionId or a jobId. Examples include a background job and business specific user flows.

[
  {
    "ddsource": "nodejs",
    "host": "checkout-0",
    "message": {
      "customerId": "CU26940939",
      "itemId": "ITEM1417",
      "itemName": "Product 7",
      "itemPrice": 2.612748019396105,
      "msg": "adding ITEM9798 to cart",
      "quantity": 2,
      "transactionId": "TX79924095"
    },
    "service": "checkout",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2024-04-26T15:45:14.000000138Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nodejs",
    "host": "checkout-0",
    "message": {
      "customerId": "CU26940939",
      "discountAmount": 13.837782236831986,
      "msg": "applying discount DISC16",
      "transactionId": "TX79924095"
    },
    "service": "checkout",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2024-04-26T15:45:14.000000831Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nodejs",
    "host": "checkout-0",
    "message": {
      "customerId": "CU26940939",
      "estimatedDelivery": "2023-11-24",
      "msg": "calculating shipping info for ITEM9798",
      "shippingAddress": "902 Main St, Anytown, AN 68387",
      "shippingMethod": "Standard",
      "transactionId": "TX79924095"
    },
    "service": "checkout",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2024-04-26T15:45:15.000000523Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nodejs",
    "host": "checkout-0",
    "message": {
      "customerId": "CU26940939",
      "msg": "payment for ITEM9798 succeeded",
      "paymentMethod": "PayPal",
      "totalAmount": 56.645267111988474,
      "transactionId": "TX79924095"
    },
    "service": "checkout",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2024-04-26T15:45:16.000000214Z"
  }
]

75% reduction in event volume
4% reduction in ingest volume

{
  "customerId": "CU26940939",
  "ddsource": "nodejs",
  "host": "checkout-0",
  "message": [
    "adding ITEM9798 to cart",
    "applying discount DISC16",
    "calculating shipping info for ITEM9798",
    "payment for ITEM9798 succeeded",
  ],
  "nimdata": [
    {
      "message": {
        "itemId": "ITEM1417",
        "itemName": "Product 7",
        "itemPrice": 2.612748019396105,
        "msg": "adding ITEM9798 to cart",
        "quantity": 2
      },
      "timestamp": "2024-04-26T15:45:14.000000138Z"
    },
    {
      "message": {
        "discountAmount": 13.837782236831986,
        "msg": "applying discount DISC16"
      },
      "timestamp": "2024-04-26T15:45:14.000000831Z"
    },
    {
      "message": {
        "estimatedDelivery": "2023-11-24",
        "msg": "calculating shipping info for ITEM9798",
        "shippingAddress": "902 Main St, Anytown, AN 68387",
        "shippingMethod": "Standard"
      },
      "timestamp": "2024-04-26T15:45:15.000000523Z"
    },
    {
      "message": {
        "msg": "payment for ITEM9798 succeeded",
        "paymentMethod": "PayPal",
        "totalAmount": 56.645267111988474
      },
      "timestamp": "2024-04-26T15:45:16.000000214Z"
    }
  ],
  "service": "checkout",
  "status": "info",
  "timestamp": "2024-04-26T15:45:14.000000138Z",
  "timestamp_end": "2024-04-26T15:45:16.000000905Z",
  "transactionId": "TX79924095"
}

- name: checkout
  type: reduce
  rules:
    # process when service is exactly equal to "checkout"
    process_when:
      - key: service
        op: EQUAL
        val: checkout
    # make sure these fields are still available at the "top level" instead of being nested
    pull_up:
      - message.transactionId
      - message.customerId
    # group all logs by the following top level keys
    group_by:
      - customerId
      - transactionId
    # specify the message field, the highlighted body of the log
    msg_field: message.msg
    # remove unecessary timestamp fields
    remove:
      - timestamp
      - message.timestamp
    # details how custom top level keys will be merged
    merge_strategies:
      transactionId: discard
      customerId: discard

Multi-Line Logs

Many times, an application will emit a single log across multiple lines such as the case with a JSON log. Unless you specifically account for this, most logging agents will consume each newline as a separate log event. Nimbus can identify when this happens and stitch these logs back together.

[
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "{",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.108Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"id\": \"2460\",",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.134Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"method\": \"GET\",",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.147Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"url\": \"/health\",",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.160Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"query\": {},",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.174Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"params\": {},",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.187Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"headers\": {",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.199Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "    \"host\": \"100.119.27.217:8080\",",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.210Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "    \"user-agent\": \"kube-probe/1.18\",",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.221Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "    \"accept-encoding\": \"gzip\",",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.233Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "    \"connection\": \"close\"",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.245Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  },",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.256Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"remoteAddress\": \"::ffff:172.20.65.189\",",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.269Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"remotePort\": 60444",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.280Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "}",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.292Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "{",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.304Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"statusCode\": 200,",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.316Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  \"headers\": {",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.327Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "    \"x-powered-by\": \"Express\"",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.338Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "  }",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.350Z"
  },
  {
    "ddsource": "nimbus",
    "host": "some-host",
    "message": "}",
    "path": "/",
    "service": "healthcheck",
    "source_type": "http_server",
    "status": "info",
    "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.361Z"
  }
]

90% in event volume reduction
87% in ingest volume reduction

{
  "ddsource": "nimbus",
  "host": "some-host",
  "message": "{  \"id\": \"2460\",  \"method\": \"GET\",  \"url\": \"/health\",  \"query\": {},  \"params\": {},  \"headers\": {    \"host\": \"100.119.27.217:8080\",    \"user-agent\": \"kube-probe/1.18\",    \"accept-encoding\": \"gzip\",    \"connection\": \"close\"  },  \"remoteAddress\": \"::ffff:172.20.65.189\",  \"remotePort\": 60444}{  \"statusCode\": 200,  \"headers\": {    \"x-powered-by\": \"Express\"  }}",
  "nimkind": "opt",
  "nimmatch": "healthcheck",
  "nimsize": 21,
  "path": "/",
  "service": "healthcheck",
  "source_type": "http_server",
  "status": "info",
  "timestamp": "2023-11-23T00:05:58.108Z"
}

- name: healthcheck
  type: reduce
  rules:
    process_when:
      - key: service
        op: EQUAL
        val: healthcheck
    group_by:
      - host
    msg_field: message
    starts_when:
      - key: message
        op: MATCH
        val: \n\{
    merge_strategies:
      msg_source: concat_newline

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