Version: 8.4

Elasticsearch exporter

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Please refer to supported environments to find out which versions of Elasticsearch are supported in a Camunda 8 Self-Managed setup.

The Zeebe Elasticsearch exporter acts as a bridge between Zeebe and Elasticsearch by exporting records written to Zeebe streams as documents into several indices.

Concept

The exporter operates on the idea that it should perform as little as possible on the Zeebe side of things. In other words, you can think of the indexes into which the records are exported as a staging data warehouse. Any enrichment or transformation on the exported data should be performed by your own ETL jobs.

When configured to do so, the exporter will automatically create an index per record value type (see the value type in the Zeebe protocol). Each of these indexes has a corresponding pre-defined mapping to facilitate data ingestion for your own ETL jobs. You can find those as templates in the resources folder of the exporter's source code.

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The indexes are created as required, and will not be created twice if they already exist. However, once disabled, they will not be deleted (that is up to the administrator.) Similarly, data is never deleted by the exporter, and must be deleted by the administrator when it is safe to do so. A retention policy can be configured to automatically delete data after a certain number of days.

Configuration

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As the exporter is packaged with Zeebe, it is not necessary to specify a jarPath.

The exporter can be enabled by configuring it with the classpath in the broker settings.

For example:

exporters:
  elasticsearch:
    className: io.camunda.zeebe.exporter.ElasticsearchExporter
    args:
    # Refer to the table below for the available args options

The exporter can be configured by providing args. The table below explains all the different options, and the default values for these options:

Option	Description	Default
url	Valid URLs as comma-separated string	`http://localhost:9200`
requestTimeoutMs	Request timeout (in ms) for the Elasticsearch. client	`30000`
index	Refer to Index for the index configuration options.
bulk	Refer to Bulk for the bulk configuration options.
retention	Refer to Retention for the retention configuration options
authentication	Refer to Authentication for the authentication configuration options.

Index
Bulk
Retention
Authentication

In most cases, you will not be interested in exporting every single record produced by a Zeebe cluster, but rather only a subset of them. This can also be configured to limit the kinds of records being exported (e.g. only events, no commands), and the value type of these records (e.g. only job and process values).

Option	Description	Default
prefix	This prefix will be appended to every index created by the exporter; must not contain `_` (underscore).	zeebe-record
createTemplate	If `true` missing indexes will be created automatically.	`true`
numberOfShards	The number of shards used for each new record index created.	3
numberOfReplicas	The number of shard replicas used for each new record index created.	0
command	If `true` command records will be exported	`false`
event	If `true` event records will be exported	`true`
rejection	If `true` rejection records will be exported	`false`
checkpoint	If `true` records related to checkpoints will be exported	`false`
commandDistribution	If `true` records related to command distributions will be exported	`true`
decision	If `true` records related to decisions will be exported	`true`
decisionEvaluation	If `true` records related to decision evaluations will be exported	`true`
decisionRequirements	If `true` records related to decisionRequirements will be exported	`true`
deployment	If `true` records related to deployments will be exported	`true`
deploymentDistribution	If `true` records related to deployment distributions will be exported	`true`
error	If `true` records related to errors will be exported	`true`
escalation	If `true` records related to escalations will be exported	`true`
form	If `true` records related to forms will be exported	`true`
incident	If `true` records related to incidents will be exported	`true`
job	If `true` records related to jobs will be exported	`true`
jobBatch	If `true` records related to job batches will be exported	`false`
message	If `true` records related to messages will be exported	`true`
messageSubscription	If `true` records related to message subscriptions will be exported	`true`
messageStartEventSubscription	If `true` records related to message start event subscriptions will be exported	`true`
process	If `true` records related to processes will be exported	`true`
processEvent	If `true` records related to process events will be exported	`false`
processInstance	If `true` records related to process instances will be exported	`true`
processInstanceBatch	If `true` records related to process instances batches will be exported	`false`
processInstanceCreation	If `true` records related to process instance creations will be exported	`true`
processInstanceMigration	If `true` records related to process instance migrations will be exported	`true`
processInstanceModification	If `true` records related to process instance modifications will be exported	`true`
processMessageSubscription	If `true` records related to process message subscriptions will be exported	`true`
resourceDeletion	If `true` records related to resource deletions will be exported	`true`
signal	If `true` records related to signals will be exported	`true`
signalSubscription	If `true` records related to signal subscriptions will be exported	`true`
timer	If `true` records related to timers will be exported	`true`
userTask	If `true` records related to user tasks will be exported	`true`
variable	If `true` records related to variables will be exported	`true`
variableDocument	If `true` records related to variable documents will be exported	`true`

To avoid too many expensive requests to the Elasticsearch cluster, the exporter performs batch updates by default. The size of the batch, along with how often it should be flushed (regardless of size) can be controlled by configuration.

Option	Description	Default
delay	Delay, in seconds, before force flush of the current batch. This ensures that even when we have low traffic of records, we still export every once in a while.	`5`
size	The amount of records a batch should have before we flush the batch	`1000`
memoryLimit	The size of the batch, in bytes, before we flush the batch	`10485760` (10 MB)

With the default configuration, the exporter will aggregate records and flush them to Elasticsearch:

When it has aggregated 1000 records.
When the batch memory size exceeds 10 MB.
Five seconds have elapsed since the last flush (regardless of how many records were aggregated).

A retention policy can be set up to delete old data. When enabled, this creates an Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) Policy that deletes the data after the specified minimumAge. All index templates created by this exporter apply the created ILM Policy.

Option	Description	Default
enabled	If `true` the ILM Policy is created and applied to the index templates	`false`
minimumAge	Specifies how old the data must be, before the data is deleted as a duration	`30d`
policyName	The name of the created and applied ILM policy	`zeebe-record-retention-policy`

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The duration can be specified in days d, hours h, minutes m, seconds s, milliseconds ms, and/or nanoseconds nanos.

Option	Description	Default
username	Username used to authenticate	N/A
password	Password used to authenticate	N/A

Example

Here is an example configuration of the exporter:

---
exporters:
  elasticsearch:
    # Elasticsearch Exporter ----------
    # An example configuration for the elasticsearch exporter:
    #
    # These setting can also be overridden using the environment variables "ZEEBE_BROKER_EXPORTERS_ELASTICSEARCH_..."
    #

    className: io.camunda.zeebe.exporter.ElasticsearchExporter

    args:
      # A comma separated list of URLs pointing to the Elasticsearch instances you wish to export to.
      # For example, if you want to connect to multiple nodes for redundancy:
      # url: http://localhost:9200,http://localhost:9201
      url: http://localhost:9200

      bulk:
        delay: 5
        size: 1000
        memoryLimit: 10485760

      retention:
        enabled: true
        minimumAge: 30d
        policyName: zeebe-records-retention-policy

      authentication:
        username: elastic
        password: changeme

      index:
        prefix: zeebe-record
        createTemplate: true

        command: false
        event: true
        rejection: false

        commandDistribution: true
        decisionRequirements: true
        decision: true
        decisionEvaluation: true
        deployment: true
        deploymentDistribution: true
        error: true
        escalation: true
        form: true
        incident: true
        job: true
        jobBatch: false
        message: true
        messageStartSubscription: true
        messageSubscription: true
        process: true
        processEvent: false
        processInstance: true
        processInstanceCreation: true
        processInstanceMigration: true
        processInstanceModification: true
        processMessageSubscription: true
        resourceDeletion: true
        signal: true
        signalSubscription: true
        timer: true
        userTask: true
        variable: true
        variableDocument: true

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