logstash-jdbc

JDBC output plugin for Logstash. This plugin is provided as an external plugin and is not part of the Logstash project.

Warning

This has not yet been extensively tested with all JDBC drivers and may not yet work for you.

Installation

• Copy lib directory contents into your logstash installation.
• Create the directory vendor/jar/jdbc in your logstash installation (mkdir -p vendor/jar/jdbc/)
• Add JDBC jar files to vendor/jar/jdbc in your logstash installation
• Configure

Configuration options

• driver_class, string, JDBC driver class to load
• connection_string, string, JDBC connection string
• statement, array, an array of strings representing the SQL statement to run. Index 0 is the SQL statement that is prepared, all other array entries are passed in as parameters (in order). See example configurations below.
• flush_size, number, default = 1000, number of entries to buffer before sending to SQL
• idle_flush_time, number, default = 1, number of idle seconds before sending data to SQL, even if the flush_size has not been reached

Example configurations

SQLite3

• Tested using https://bitbucket.org/xerial/sqlite-jdbc
• SQLite setup - echo "CREATE table log (host text, timestamp datetime, message text);" | sqlite3 test.db

input
{
	stdin { }
}
output {
	stdout { }

	jdbc {
		driver_class => 'org.sqlite.JDBC'
		connection_string => 'jdbc:sqlite:test.db'
		statement => [ "INSERT INTO log (host, timestamp, message) VALUES(?, ?, ?)", "%{host}", "%{@timestamp}", "%{message}" ]
	}
}

SQL Server

• Tested using http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/sqlserver/aa937724.aspx

input
{
	stdin { }
}
output {
	jdbc {
		driver_class => 'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver'
		connection_string => "jdbc:sqlserver://server:1433;databaseName=databasename;user=username;password=password;autoReconnect=true;"
		statement => [ "INSERT INTO log (host, timestamp, message) VALUES(?, ?, ?)", "%{host}", "%{@timestamp}", "%{message}" ]
	}
}

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