How to pass ruby variable to logstash field?

[laptop_data]

Hi, I'm using ruby filter in my logstash conf file where it will produce some output into a variable which is json data, so that i will filter that data using json filter. But the problem is i can't able to pass that variable out side the ruby filter. Similialrly how should i pass my logstash field to ruby variable.

[magnusbaeck (Magnus Bäck)]

See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/event-api.html for how to read from and write to event fields.

[laptop_data]

Hi @magnusbaeck, Thanks for your replay. That links provides only pass logstash fields to ruby, I also need to get ruby variables to logstash variables.

[magnusbaeck (Magnus Bäck)]

What do you mean by "Logstash variables"? Perhaps you can give an example.

[laptop_data]

The below is my sample code, where i'm passing input response to the filter. Here XYZ is a field name from the input.

ruby{
"init => '@var'
code => "
event.set('var',event.get('XYZ'))
require 'open-uri'
response = open('http://xyz.com?q="@var"').read
puts response
}

Here response will get some JSON data, now i should apply json filter on response.

like json {
           source => "response"
}

but it is not working.