Destination, file type

Destinations of the file type destinations are used for writing to a file. Settings for a destination of the file type are described in the following tables.

When deleting a destination of the file type that is being used in a service, you must restart the service.

Basic settings tab

Setting

Description

Name

Unique name of the resource. The maximum length of the name is 128 Unicode characters.

Required setting.

Tenant

The name of the tenant that owns the resource.

Required setting.

State

This toggle switch enables sending events to the destination. This toggle switch is turned on by default.

 

Type

Destination type: file.

Required setting.

URL

Path to the file to which the events must be written.

Limitations when using prefixes in file paths

Required setting.

Tags

 

Description

Description of the resource. The maximum length of the description is 4000 Unicode characters.

Advanced settings tab

Setting

Description

Buffer size

Buffer size in bytes for accumulating events in the RAM of the server before sending sending them for further processing or storage. The value must be a positive integer. Default buffer size: 1,048,576 bytes (1 MB). Maximum buffer size: 67,108,864 bytes (64 MB).

Buffer flush interval

Interval (in seconds) for sending events to the destination. The default value is 1 second.

Disk buffer size limit

Size of the disk buffer in bytes. The default value is 10 GB.

Handlers

Number of handlers that the service can run simultaneously to process response rules in parallel. To determine the number of handlers, you can use the following formula: (<number of CPUs> / 2) + 2.

Output format

Format in which events are sent to the destination:

  • JSON.
  • CEF. If this value is selected, the transmitted events contain the CEF header and only non-empty fields.

Delimiter

The character that marks the boundary between events:

  • \n
  • \t
  • \0

If you do not select a value in this drop-down list, \n is selected by default.

Disk buffer disabled

This toggle switch that enables the disk buffer. This toggle switch is turned on by default.

The disk buffer is used if the collector cannot send normalized events to the destination. You can specify the size of the disk buffer in the Disk buffer size limit field. If the disk buffer runs out of free space, new normalized events will overwrite old normalized events, starting with the oldest.

Debug

Ths switch enables resource logging. This toggle switch is turned off by default.

Filter

Filter for determining which events must be processed by the resource. You can select an existing filter or create a new filter. To create a new filter, select Create new.

If you want to edit the settings of an existing filter, click the pencil edit-pencil icon next to it.

How to create a filter?

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