Hi all,
We have recently faced some data sources that generate data in a nested
format. For example, AWS Cloudtrail generates data in the following JSON
format:
{
"Records": [
{
"eventVersion": *"2.0"*,
"userIdentity": {
"type": *"IAMUser"*,
"principalId": *"EX_PRINCIPAL_ID"*,
"arn": *"arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Alice"*,
"accessKeyId": *"EXAMPLE_KEY_ID"*,
"accountId": *"123456789012"*,
"userName": *"Alice"*
},
"eventTime": *"2014-03-07T21:22:54Z"*,
"eventSource": *"ec2.amazonaws.com <http://ec2.amazonaws.com>"*,
"eventName": *"StartInstances"*,
"awsRegion": *"us-east-2"*,
"sourceIPAddress": *"205.251.233.176"*,
"userAgent": *"ec2-api-tools 1.6.12.2"*,
"requestParameters": {
"instancesSet": {
"items": [
{
"instanceId": *"i-ebeaf9e2"*
}
]
}
},
"responseElements": {
"instancesSet": {
"items": [
{
"instanceId": *"i-ebeaf9e2"*,
"currentState": {
"code": 0,
"name": *"pending"*
},
"previousState": {
"code": 80,
"name": *"stopped"*
}
}
]
}
}
}
]
}
We are able to make this as a flat JSON file. However, a nested object is
supported by data backends in Metron (ES, ORC, etc.), so I was wondering
whether with the current version of Metron we are able to index nested
documents or we have to make it flat?
Cheers,
Ali
