# JSON Configuration Example # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # A simple example that parses incoming data as JSON. This example also # demonstrated wrapped JSON, showing that you can chain VRL expressions # together to quickly traverse nested objects with simple path notation. data_dir: "/var/lib/vector" # Ingest data # Example: {"message": "{\"parent\": \"{\\\"child\\\": \\\"value2\\\"}\"}"} # Docs: https://vector.dev/docs/reference/sources/file sources: logs: type: "file" include: [ "/var/log/*.log" ] ignore_older_secs: 86400 # 1 day # Parse the data as JSON # Docs: https://vector.dev/docs/reference/transforms/remap transforms: parse_json: inputs: [ "logs" ] type: "remap" drop_on_error: false source: | message = del(.message) . |= parse_json!(string!(message)) parent = del(.parent) . |= parse_json!(string!(parent)) child = del(.child) . |= parse_json!(string!(child)) # Print the data to STDOUT for inspection # Docs: https://vector.dev/docs/reference/sinks/console sinks: out: inputs: [ "parse_json" ] type: "console" encoding: codec: "json"