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JSON Parser - Hierarchy Depth #34942

Open LauraMaassen opened 3 months ago

LauraMaassen commented 3 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When I use the filelog receiver and parse a json field with the json_parser operator, I often only want to parse the toplevel json keys instead of a full recursive parsing. The problem is that a deeply nested json field can produce a large number of parsed field columns, which might not be suitable for tools like opensearch.

Describe the solution you'd like I would appriciate a configuration field on the desired parsing depth. The default could still be infinity.

Describe alternatives you've considered I considered using the transform processor to convert json objects in lower depth into lists and parse them then with the json parser. But I think this is way to complicated.

breedx-splk commented 3 months ago

Hi @LauraMaassen I think you might have intended to open this issue on the collector-contrib repo? I will see if we can have it transferred. Thanks.

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