Normalize-for-Stream processor

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Detects whether a document is OpenTelemetry-compliant and if not - normalizes it as described below. If used in combination with the OTel-related mappings such as the ones defined in logs-otel@template, the resulting document can be queried seamlessly by clients that expect either ECS or OpenTelemetry-Semantic-Conventions formats.

The processor detects OpenTelemetry compliance by checking the following fields:

• resource exists as a key and the value is a map
• resource either doesn't contain an attributes field, or contains an attributes field of type map
• scope is either missing or a map
• attributes is either missing or a map
• body is either missing or a map
• body either doesn't contain a text field, or contains a text field of type String
• body either doesn't contain a structured field, or contains a structured field that is not of type String

If all of these conditions are met, the document is considered OpenTelemetry-compliant and is not modified by the processor.

If the document is not OpenTelemetry-compliant, the processor normalizes it as follows:

• Specific ECS fields are renamed to have their corresponding OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions attribute names. These include the following:

  ECS Field	Semantic Conventions Attribute
  span.id	span_id
  trace.id	trace_id
  message	body.text
  log.level	severity_text

  The processor first looks for the nested form of the ECS field and if such does not exist, it looks for a top-level field with the dotted field name.

• Other specific ECS fields that describe resources and have corresponding counterparts in the OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions are moved to the resource.attributes map. Fields that are considered resource attributes are such that conform to the following conditions:

  • They are ECS fields that have corresponding counterparts (either with the same name or with a different name) in OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions.
  • The corresponding OpenTelemetry attribute is defined in Semantic Conventions within a group that is defined as type: entity.

• All other fields, except for @timestamp, are moved to the attributes map.

• All non-array entries of the attributes and resource.attributes maps are flattened. Flattening means that nested objects are merged into their parent object, and the keys are concatenated with a dot. See examples below.

If an OpenTelemetry-compliant document is detected, the processor does nothing. For example, the following document will stay unchanged:

{
  "resource": {
    "attributes": {
      "service.name": "my-service"
    }
  },
  "scope": {
    "name": "my-library",
    "version": "1.0.0"
  },
  "attributes": {
    "http.method": "GET"
  },
  "body": {
    "text": "Hello, world!"
  }
}
		

If a non-OpenTelemetry-compliant document is detected, the processor normalizes it. For example, the following document:

{
  "@timestamp": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z",
  "service": {
    "name": "my-service",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "environment": "production",
    "language": {
      "name": "python",
      "version": "3.8"
    }
  },
  "log": {
    "level": "INFO"
  },
  "message": "Hello, world!",
  "http": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": {
      "path": "/api/v1/resource"
    },
    "headers": [
      {
        "name": "Authorization",
        "value": "Bearer token"
      },
      {
        "name": "User-Agent",
        "value": "my-client/1.0"
      }
    ]
  },
  "span" : {
    "id": "1234567890abcdef"
  },
  "span.id": "abcdef1234567890",
  "trace.id": "abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890"
}
		

will be normalized into the following form:

{
  "@timestamp": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z",
  "resource": {
    "attributes": {
      "service.name": "my-service",
      "service.version": "1.0.0",
      "service.environment": "production"
    }
  },
  "attributes": {
    "service.language.name": "python",
    "service.language.version": "3.8",
    "http.method": "GET",
    "http.url.path": "/api/v1/resource",
    "http.headers": [
      {
        "name": "Authorization",
        "value": "Bearer token"
      },
      {
        "name": "User-Agent",
        "value": "my-client/1.0"
      }
    ]
  },
  "severity_text": "INFO",
  "body": {
    "text": "Hello, world!"
  },
  "span_id": "1234567890abcdef",
  "trace_id": "abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890"
}
		

If the message field in the ingested document is structured as a JSON, the processor will determine whether it is in ECS format or not, based on the existence or absence of the @timestamp field. If the @timestamp field is present, the message field will be considered to be in ECS format, and its contents will be merged into the root of the document and then normalized as described above. The @timestamp from the message field will override the root @timestamp field in the resulting document. If the @timestamp field is absent, the message field will be moved to the body.structured field as is, without any further normalization.

For example, if the message field is an ECS-JSON, as follows:

{
  "@timestamp": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z",
  "message": "{\"@timestamp\":\"2023-10-01T12:01:00Z\",\"log.level\":\"INFO\",\"service.name\":\"my-service\",\"message\":\"The actual log message\",\"http\":{\"method\":\"GET\",\"url\":{\"path\":\"/api/v1/resource\"}}}"

}
		

it will be normalized into the following form:

{
  "@timestamp": "2023-10-01T12:01:00Z",
  "severity_text": "INFO",
  "body": {
    "text": "The actual log message"
  },
  "resource": {
    "attributes": {
      "service.name": "my-service"
    }
  },
  "attributes": {
    "http.method": "GET",
    "http.url.path": "/api/v1/resource"
  }
}
		

However, if the message field is not recognized as ECS format, as follows:

{
  "@timestamp": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z",
  "log": {
    "level": "INFO"
  },
  "service": {
    "name": "my-service"
  },
  "tags": ["user-action", "api-call"],
  "message": "{\"root_cause\":\"Network error\",\"http\":{\"method\":\"GET\",\"url\":{\"path\":\"/api/v1/resource\"}}}"
}
		

it will be normalized into the following form:

{
  "@timestamp": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z",
  "severity_text": "INFO",
  "resource": {
    "attributes": {
      "service.name": "my-service"
    }
  },
  "attributes": {
    "tags": ["user-action", "api-call"]
  },
  "body": {
    "structured": {
      "root_cause": "Network error",
      "http": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": {
          "path": "/api/v1/resource"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}