File Store

File Store (file-store)

Write to a local file system object store.

Object Store File binary json raw

Minimal example

output:
  file-store:
    object-name:
      name: ~
    path: ""

JSON

{
  "output": {
    "file-store": {
      "object-name": {
        "name": null
      },
      "path": ""
    }
  }
}

Contents

• Minimal example

• Fields

• Reliability

• Processing

• Location

• Behavior

• Object Properties

• Schema

Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
path Location	path (string)	✅	Select filesystem path as root of store. Examples: /path/to/file, c:\users\joe\data\file.txt
object-name Location	Object Name	✅	File name (may contain slashes).
retry Reliability	Retry		Retry on failure.
batch Processing	Batch		Write events as batches.
mode Behavior	Mode		Specify whether we’re putting or deleting. Allowed values: put, delete
input-field Processing	field (string)		Use the specified field as the content for the file line. Examples: data_field
disable-object-name-guid Object Properties	boolean (bool)		Disable the GUID prefix if you want object name to be treated literally (off for deletes).
guid-prefix Object Properties	string		GUID Prefix, will be prepended to the GUID, the default value is ”/”.
guid-suffix Object Properties	string		GUID Suffix, will be appended to the GUID if specified.
preprocessors Processing	Preprocessors[]		Preprocessors (process data before making it available for upload) these processors will be run in the order they are specified. Allowed values: gzip, parquet, base64
track-schema Reliability	boolean (bool)		Check the schema of the written data and update __SCHEMA_NUMBER (written data must be JSON).

Reliability

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Field	Type	Required	Description
retry	Retry		Retry on failure.
track-schema	boolean (bool)		Check the schema of the written data and update __SCHEMA_NUMBER (written data must be JSON).

Processing

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Field	Type	Required	Description
batch	Batch		Write events as batches.
input-field	field (string)		Use the specified field as the content for the file line. Examples: data_field
preprocessors	Preprocessors[]		Preprocessors (process data before making it available for upload) these processors will be run in the order they are specified. Allowed values: gzip, parquet, base64

Location

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Field	Type	Required	Description
path	path (string)	✅	Select filesystem path as root of store. Examples: /path/to/file, c:\users\joe\data\file.txt
object-name	Object Name	✅	File name (may contain slashes).

Behavior

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Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	Mode		Specify whether we’re putting or deleting. Allowed values: put, delete

Object Properties

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Field	Type	Required	Description
disable-object-name-guid	boolean (bool)		Disable the GUID prefix if you want object name to be treated literally (off for deletes).
guid-prefix	string		GUID Prefix, will be prepended to the GUID, the default value is ”/”.
guid-suffix	string		GUID Suffix, will be appended to the GUID if specified.

Schema

• Object Name Options
• Retry Fields
• Batch Fields
• Batch - Mode Options
• Mode Options
• Preprocessors Options

Object Name Options

Option	Name	Type	Description
name	Name	string	Object Name.
field	Field	string	Field containing the Object Name.

Retry Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
timeout	time-interval (string)	✅	timeout (e.g. 500ms, 2s etc. - default is 30). Examples: 500ms, 2h
retries	number (integer)		number of retries. Examples: 42, 1.2e-10

Batch Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
fixed-size	number (integer)		maximum number of events in an output batch. Examples: 42, 1.2e-10
mode	Mode	✅	If ‘document’ send on end of document generated by input. If ‘fixed’, use fixed_size. Allowed values: fixed, document
timeout	time-interval (string)	✅	interval after which the batch is sent, to keep throughput going (default 100ms). Examples: 500ms, 2h
header	multiline-text (string)		put a header line before the batch.
footer	multiline-text (string)		put a header line after the last line of the batch.
use-document-marker	boolean (bool)		Enrich the job metadata with a document marker (for document handling in batch mode).
wrap-as-json	boolean (bool)		Format the output batch as a JSON array.

Batch - Mode Options

Value	Description
fixed	Fixed
document	Document

Mode Options

Value	Description
put	Put Objects
delete	Delete Objects

Preprocessors Options

Value	Description
gzip	Gzip the output data
parquet	Extract the received data as JSON rows from a parquet file
base64	Decode base64 as binary