Defaults Processor Plugin
This plugin allows to specify default values for fields and tags for cases where the tag or field does not exist or has an empty value.
Introduced in: Telegraf v1.15.0 Tags: transformation OS support: all
Global configuration options
In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc. See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.
Configuration
## Set default fields and tags on your metric(s) when they are nil or empty
[[processors.defaults]]
## Ensures a set of fields or tags always exists on your metric(s) with their
## respective default value.
## For any given field/tag pair (key = default), if it's not set, a field/tag
## is set on the metric with the specified default.
##
## A field is considered not set if it is nil on the incoming metric;
## or it is not nil but its value is an empty string or is a string
## of one or more spaces.
## <target-field> = <value>
[processors.defaults.fields]
field_1 = "bar"
time_idle = 0
is_error = true
## A tag is considered not set if it is nil on the incoming metric;
## or it is not nil but it is empty string or a string of one or
## more spaces.
## <target-tag> = <value>
[processors.defaults.tags]
tag_1 = "foo"Example
Ensure a status_code field with N/A is inserted in the metric when one is not set in the metric by default:
[[processors.defaults]]
[processors.defaults.fields]
status_code = "N/A"- lb,http_method=GET cache_status=HIT,latency=230
+ lb,http_method=GET cache_status=HIT,latency=230,status_code="N/A"
Ensure an empty string gets replaced by a default:
- lb,http_method=GET cache_status=HIT,latency=230,status_code=""
+ lb,http_method=GET cache_status=HIT,latency=230,status_code="N/A"
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