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elasticsearch-watcher
Advanced tools
This is an addon to the official elasticsearch python client that adds functionality for the Watcher plugin.
You can install this addon using pip
::
pip install elasticsearch-watcher
You can use this client alone:
.. code:: python
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
from elasticsearch_watcher import WatcherClient
client = Elasticsearch()
watcher = WatcherClient(client)
watcher.get_watch(id=42)
Or you can add the watcher
namespace to the official client to mimic the
behaviors of other namespaces:
.. code:: python
WatcherClient.infect_client(client)
client.watcher.get_watch(id=42)
.. code:: python
from time import sleep
from datetime import datetime
from random import randint
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
from elasticsearch_watcher import WatcherClient
# initialize the standard client as usual
es = Elasticsearch()
# add the .watcher namespace to it
WatcherClient.infect_client(es)
# clear the index fiorst
es.indices.delete(
index=['alerts', 'test', '.watches', '.watch_history*'], ignore=404)
# get the watcher plugin version
print('Using watcher', es.watcher.info()['version']['number'])
# Register a new watch
es.watcher.put_watch(
id='error_500',
body={
# label the watch
'metadata': {'tags': ['errors']},
# Run the watch every 10 seconds
'trigger': { 'schedule': { 'interval': '10s' } },
# Search for at least 3 documents matching the condition
'condition': { 'script': { 'inline': 'ctx.payload.hits.total > 3' } },
# Throttle the watch execution for 30 seconds
'throttle_period': '30s',
# The search request to execute
'input': {
'search': {
'request': {
'indices': ['test'],
'body': {
'query': {
'filtered': {
'query': { 'match': { 'status': 500 } },
'filter': { 'range': { 'timestamp': { 'from': '{{ctx.trigger.scheduled_time}}||-5m', 'to': '{{ctx.trigger.triggered_time}}' } } }
}
},
# Return statistics about different hosts
'aggregations': {
'hosts': { 'terms': { 'field': 'host' } }
}
}}}},
# The actions to perform
'actions': {
'send_email': {
'transform': {
# Transform the data for the template
'script': '''return [
total: ctx.payload.hits.total,
hosts: ctx.payload.aggregations.hosts.buckets.collect { [ host: it.key, errors: it.doc_count ] },
errors: ctx.payload.hits.hits.collect { it._source }
];'''
},
'email': {
'to': 'you@example.com',
'subject': '[ALERT] {{ctx.watch_id}}',
'attach_data': True,
'body': '''
Received {{ctx.payload.total}} error documents in the last 5 minutes.
Hosts:
{{#ctx.payload.hosts}}* {{host}} ({{errors}})
{{/ctx.payload.hosts}}'''.replace('\n'+' '*24, '\n').strip(),
}
},
'index_payload': {
# Transform the data to be stored
'transform': { 'script': 'return [ watch_id: ctx.watch_id, payload: ctx.payload ]' },
'index': { 'index': 'alerts', 'doc_type': 'alert' }
},
'ping_webhook': {
'webhook': {
'method': 'POST',
'host': 'localhost',
'port': 8000,
'path': '/',
'body': '{"watch_id" : "{{ctx.watch_id}}", "payload" : "{{ctx.payload}}"}'
}
}
}
}
)
# index documents to trigger the watch
for _ in range(5):
es.index(
index='test',
doc_type='d',
body={
'timestamp': datetime.utcnow(),
'status': 500,
'host': '10.0.0.%d' % randint(1, 3)
}
)
# wait a bit...
for _ in range(30):
sleep(1)
print('.', sep='', end='', flush=True)
print()
# display information about watch execution
print('=' * 80)
s = es.search(
index='.watch_history*',
q='watch_id:error_500',
sort='trigger_event.schedule.triggered_time:asc'
)
for hit in s['hits']['hits']:
print('%s: %s' % (hit['_id'], hit['_source']['state']))
# delete the watch
es.watcher.delete_watch(id='error_500', force=True)
Copyright 2015 Elasticsearch
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FAQs
Python client for Elasticsearch Watcher
We found that elasticsearch-watcher demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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