Filter Severity

Note
This feature is available as an add-on for the Honeycomb Enterprise plan. Please contact your Honeycomb account team for details.

Description 

The Severity Filter processor can be used to filter out logs that do not meet a given severity threshold.

Supported Types 

Metrics Logs Traces

Configuration Table 

Parameter Type Default Description
severity enum TRACE Minimum severity to match. Log entries with lower severities will be filtered.
condition string true An OTTL expression used to match which log records to sample from. All paths in the log context are available to reference. All converters are available to use.

Valid severity levels:

  • TRACE
  • INFO
  • WARN
  • ERROR
  • FATAL

Example Configuration 

Filter out INFO and TRACE logs where Attribute ID is less than 3.

Web Interface 

Honeycomb Docs - Filter Severity - image 1

Standalone Processor 

apiVersion: bindplane.observiq.com/v1
kind: Processor
metadata:
  id: severity-filter
  name: severity-filter
spec:
  type: filter_severity
  parameters:
    - name: severity
      value: WARN
    - name: condition
      value:
        ottl: (attributes["ID"] < 3)
        ui:
          operator: ''
          statements:
            - key: ID
              match: attributes
              operator: <
              value: '3'

Configuration with Embedded Processor 

apiVersion: bindplane.observiq.com/v1
kind: Configuration
metadata:
  id: severity-filter
  name: severity-filter
  labels:
    platform: linux
spec:
  sources:
    - type: journald
      parameters:
        - name: units
          value: []
        - name: directory
          value: ''
        - name: priority
          value: info
        - name: start_at
          value: end
      processors:
        - type: filter_severity
          parameters:
            - name: severity
              value: WARN
            - name: condition
              value:
                ottl: (attributes["ID"] < 3)
                ui:
                  operator: ''
                  statements:
                    - key: ID
                      match: attributes
                      operator: <
                      value: '3'
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      configuration: severity-filter