Integrations /

Create log sink

Creates a new log sink.

Required permission

Account > Sinks > General > Create

Request body

{object}
Create a log sink using Loki

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
loki
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the Loki log sink.

endpoint
string required
The endpoint of the Loki log sink.
encoding
{object}
Encoding options

codec
string required
Codec to encode logs in
one of
text, json

auth
{object}
Object containing authentication data for the log sink.

strategy
string
The authentication strategy.
one of
basic
user
string
The username for the log sink.
password
string
The password for the log sink.

{object}
Create a log sink using Datadog

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
datadog_logs
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the Datadog log sink.

default_api_key
string required
The Datadog API key.
region
string required
The Datadog region.
one of
eu, us, us3, us5

{object}
Create a log sink using Papertrail

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
papertrail
sinkData
(multiple options: oneOf) required
Papertrail Sink Schema.

{object}

Authenticate with a host/port

authenticationStrategy
string required
The authentication strategy.
one of
port
host
string required
The host for the Papertrail log destination.
port
number required
The port for the Papertrail log destination.

{object}

Authenticate with a token.

authenticationStrategy
string required
The authentication strategy.
one of
token
uri
string required
The uri for the Papertrail log destination.
token
string required
The HTTP Token for the Papertrail log destination.

{object}
Create a log sink using AWS S3

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
aws_s3
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the AWS S3 log sink.

endpoint
string required
Endpoint for the AWS S3 or compatible API bucket.
region
string required
Region of the S3 bucket.
one of
eu-west-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3, eu-central-1, eu-south-1, eu-north-1, us-west-1, us-west-2, us-east-1, us-east2
auth
{object}
Authentication object.

accessKeyId
string required
Access key id for the bucket.
secretAccessKey
string required
Secret access key for the bucket.

bucket
string required
Name of the S3 Bucket.
compression
string required
Log file compression method.
one of
gzip, none

{object}
Create a log sink using HTTP

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
http
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the HTTP log sink.

uri
string required
Uri to send logs to.
encoding
{object}
Encoding options

codec
string required
Codec to encode logs in
one of
text, json

batch
{object}

maxEvents
number
The max number of events in a batch before sending
maxBytes
number
The max size of a batch in bytes before sending

auth
(multiple options: oneOf) required
Auth information.

{object}

No authentication strategy

strategy
string required
No authentication strategy
one of
none

{object}

Authenticate with a basic http strategy.

strategy
string required
Basic HTTP authentication strategy.
one of
basic
user
string
Username for basic http authentication.
password
string required
Password for basic http authentication.

{object}

Authenticate with a bearer token strategy.

strategy
string required
Bearer token authentication strategy.
one of
bearer
token
string
Token for bearer token authentication.

{object}
Create a log sink using LogDNA

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
logdna
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the LogDNA log sink.

api_key
string required
Ingestion Key

{object}
Create a log sink using Better Stack

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
betterStack
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the Better Stack log sink.

token
string required
Better Stack Source Token

{object}
Create a log sink using Honeycomb

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
honeycomb
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the Honeycomb log sink.

api_key
string required
Honeycomb API Key
dataset
string required
Name of the dataset

{object}
Create a log sink using Logz.io

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
logzio
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the Logz.io log sink.

region
string required
Your Logzio region code
one of
eu, uk, us, ca, au, nl, wa
token
string required
The Log Shipping Token of the account you want to ship to

{object}
Create a log sink using Axiom

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
axiom
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the Axiom log sink.

dataset
string required
Name of the data
token
string required
Axiom API/Personal token
tokenType
string required
Using a personal token
one of
personal, api
orgId
string
The ID of the organisation, required if using a personal token
url
string
The Axiom url to use. Only change if self hosting axiom.

{object}
Create a log sink using New Relic

name
string required
Name of the log sink.
description
string
Description of the log sink.
max length
200
pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9.,?\s\\/'"()[\];`%^&*\-_:!]+$
restricted
boolean
If `true`, only logs from the projects in `projects` will be sent to the log sink.
projects
[array]
If `restricted` is `true`, only logs from these projects will be sent to the log sink.

string
The ID of a project.
pattern
^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$

options
{object}

useCustomLabels
boolean
If `true`, we will do additional parsing on your JSON formatted log lines and your extract custom labels
forwardCdnLogs
boolean
Forward CDN logs from your workloads
forwardIngressLogs
boolean
Forward ingress logs from your workloads
forwardMeshLogs
boolean
Forward mesh logs from your workloads

sinkType
string required
The type of the log sink.
one of
newRelic
sinkData
{object} required
Details about the New Relic log sink.

accountId
string required
New Relic Account ID
licenseKey
string required
New Relic License Key
region
string required
one of
eu, us

Response body

{object}
Response object.

data
{object} required
Result data.

id
string required
The ID of the new log sink.

API

CLI

JS Client

POST /v1/integrations/log-sinks

Example request

Request body

Create a log sink using Loki

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"loki","sinkData":{"endpoint":"https://logs.example.com","encoding":{"codec":"json"},"auth":{"strategy":"basic","user":"admin","password":"password1234"}}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using Datadog

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"datadog_logs","sinkData":{"default_api_key":"abcdef12345678900000000000000000","region":"eu"}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using Papertrail

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"papertrail","sinkData":{"authenticationStrategy":"port","host":"logs1.papertrailapp.com:","port":8000}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using AWS S3

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"aws_s3","sinkData":{"endpoint":"my.bucket.com","region":"eu-west-2","auth":{"accessKeyId":"PMSACIHNUIASDBWQDS","secretAccessKey":"HA1PLMNOEAEYUHAJQMSDUJQS"},"bucket":"northflank-logs","compression":"gzip"}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using HTTP

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"http","sinkData":{"uri":"my.log-collector.com","encoding":{"codec":"json"},"batch":{"maxEvents":"10","maxBytes":"1e+7"},"auth":{"strategy":"none"}}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using LogDNA

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"logdna","sinkData":{"api_key":"b1dd3feb585asd1a3e9edpo9kmn5e590hg9"}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using Better Stack

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"betterStack","sinkData":{"token":"vhnqrLygVQ5GnSQUTZamKvAq"}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using Honeycomb

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"honeycomb","sinkData":{"api_key":"b1dd3feb585asd1a3e9","dataset":"staging-logs"}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using Logz.io

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"logzio","sinkData":{"region":"eu","token":"sNFijNFgNFoNFrMsNFbNFObNFcgNFqoa"}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using Axiom

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"axiom","sinkData":{"dataset":"staging","token":"b1dd3feb585asd1a3e9edpo9kmn5e590hg9","tokenType":"api"}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Create a log sink using New Relic

curl

curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer NORTHFLANK_API_TOKEN" \
  --request POST \
  --data '{"name":"example-log-sink","description":"This is an example log sink.","restricted":true,"projects":["default-project"],"options":{"useCustomLabels":true,"forwardCdnLogs":true,"forwardIngressLogs":true,"forwardMeshLogs":true},"sinkType":"newRelic","sinkData":{"accountId":"b1dd3feb585asd1a3e9","licenseKey":"b1dd3feb585asd1a3e9","region":"eu"}}' \
  https://api.northflank.com/v1/integrations/log-sinks

Example response

200 OK

Details about a log sink.

JSON

{
  "data": {
    "id": "example-log-sink"
  }
}