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Setting Structured and Tag Fields

Setting Structured Fields

You can set extracted fields after cloud structuring. For details, see Table 1.

Table 1 Rules for configuring structured fields

Template Name

Field Name

Field Type Can Be Changed

Field Can Be Deleted

Regular expressions (auto generate)

User-defined.

The name must start with a letter and contain only letters and digits.

Yes

Yes

Regular expressions (manually enter)
  • User-defined.
  • Default names such as field1, field2, and field3 will be used.

Yes

Yes

JSON

Names are set automatically, but you can set aliases for fields.

Yes

Yes

Delimiter

Default names such as field1, field2, field3 are used. You can modify these names.

Yes

Yes

Nginx

Names are set based on Nginx configuration, but you can set aliases for fields.

Yes

Yes

Custom templates

User-defined.

Yes

Yes

When you use regular expressions (manually entered), JSON, delimiters, Nginx, or custom templates to structure logs, field names:

  • Can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and periods (.).
  • Cannot start with a period (.) or underscore (_) or end with a period (.).
  • Can contain 1 to 64 characters.

Setting Tag Fields

When you structure logs, you can configure tag fields, so you can use these fields to run SQL queries on the Visualization page.

  1. In Step 2 Extract fields, click the Tag Fields tab and Add Field.

    Figure 1 Adding a tag field

  2. In the Field column, enter a name for the tag field, for example, hostIP.

    If you configure tag fields for a structuring rule that was created before the function of tag fields was brought online, no example values will be shown with the tag fields.

  3. To add more fields, click Add Field.
  4. Click Save.

    • Tag fields can be the following system fields: category, clusterId, clusterName, containerName, hostIP, hostId, hostName, nameSpace, pathFile, and podName.
    • Tag fields cannot be the following system fields: groupName, logStream, lineNum, content, logContent, logContentSize, and collectTime.
    • You can configure both field extraction and tag fields during log structuring.