[newrelic-logging] Add ability to specify custom attributes and parsers

[newrelic]

[newrelic-logging] Add ability to specify custom attributes and parsers

[jsubirat]

Hi @WilliamABradley , a new feature has been added to add additional attributes in this PR: #609

You can now achieve it with the following config in values.yml:

fluentBit:
  config:
    extraFilters: |
      # Include any custom attributes in the FILTER below
      [FILTER]
          Name            record_modifier
          Match           *
          Record          customAttributeName1 customAttributeValue1
          Record          customAttributeName2 customAttributeValue2

With regards to the ability to specify additional parsers, could you please describe what would be the use case you'd be targeting? Normally, your logs would follow either the docker or the cri format. If you would like to then parse them as, say, nginx logs, you'd need to define a parser filter to intercept only the logs coming from an Nginx pod, and then apply that parser to them. But to do this, you'd need to rewrite its tag first so that only the Nginx logs are intercepted by this filter.

[jsubirat]

Hi @WilliamABradley , many thanks for your feature request. We'll evaluate it and get back to you. I'm currently moving all the pending issues from our soon-to-be-deprecated kubernetes-logging repository. I assume that this ticket is a replica of this one. Please let me know if that's not the case. Thank you very much in advance.