Skip to content
Open
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
97 changes: 77 additions & 20 deletions _data-prepper/pipelines/get-metadata.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -14,29 +14,86 @@ If the key contains a `/`, then the function looks up the metadata recursively.

The value returned can be of any type. For example, if the metadata contains `{"key1": "value2", "key2": 10}`, then the function `getMetadata("key1")` returns `value2`. The function `getMetadata("key2")` returns `10`.

#### Example
## Example

The following pipeline writes request derived values into event metadata, then uses `getMetadata()` in the OpenSearch sink to build tenant scoped daily index names and document IDs:

```yaml
metadata-pass-demo:
source:
http:
ssl: false

processor:
- add_entries:
entries:
# write to metadata
- metadata_key: tenant
value_expression: /tenant
- metadata_key: ingest_marker
value: batch-001
- add_entries:
entries:
- key: tenant_from_meta
value_expression: getMetadata("tenant")

sink:
- opensearch:
hosts: ["https://opensearch:9200"]
insecure: true
username: admin
password: admin_password
index_type: custom
# Use metadata inside sink format strings
index: demo-%{yyyy.MM.dd}-${getMetadata("tenant")}
document_id: ${/id}-${getMetadata("tenant")}
```
{% include copy.html %}

You can test the pipeline using the following command:

```bash
curl -sS -X POST "http://localhost:2021/log/ingest" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '[{"id":"1","tenant":"eu","message":"hello"}, {"id":"2","tenant":"us","message":"hi"}]'
```
{% include copy.html %}

The documents stored in OpenSearch contain the following information:

```json
{
"event": {
"metadata": {
"key1": "value2",
"key2": 10
},
"data": {
// ...
}
},
"output": [
{
"key": "key1",
"value": "value2"
...
"hits": {
"total": {
"value": 2,
"relation": "eq"
},
{
"key": "key2",
"value": 10
}
]
"max_score": 1,
"hits": [
{
"_index": "demo-2025.10.22-eu",
"_id": "1-eu",
"_score": 1,
"_source": {
"id": "1",
"tenant": "eu",
"message": "hello",
"tenant_from_meta": "eu"
}
},
{
"_index": "demo-2025.10.22-us",
"_id": "2-us",
"_score": 1,
"_source": {
"id": "2",
"tenant": "us",
"message": "hi",
"tenant_from_meta": "us"
}
}
]
}
}
```
{% include copy.html %}