Parsers

Parsers work alongside the Input Components to determine how to parse the incoming message.

Plain

Plain treats every incoming line as a single message, and adds it to the ‘message’ field.

There are no required or optional configuration options.

JSON

JSON treats every incoming line as a single JSON body. Each key in the JSON becomes a key in the quicklog message object. If the ‘message’ field is not present in the JSON object, it is set as an empty string.

There are no required or optional configuration options.

NOTE: If your json objects come in without ‘message’, you can use the rename_field filter to make it ‘message’.

Otto

Otto runs each incoming line through a Javascript function.

The return value of the javascript function MUST be a Dictionary. The quicklog message data is populated from this dictionary.

Example function which splits the message in two:

res=function(e){ return l=e.split(\" \"),{message:l[0],meta:l[1]}}; "

The first part of the incoming message becomes the ‘message’ field and the last part becomes the ‘meta’ field.

Configuration

• Required
  • otto.script - The javascript code to run the log message through.