Http_poller input plugin Logstash solution

[EZprogramming (Kourosh Azizi)]

Background info:

The objective is to transfer release information of a hardware machine from Balena to Kibana using the following logic:

Balena JSON data > Logstash > Elasticsearch > Kibana

I am stuck in the Logstash part

Questions:

1. What is the best/easiest way to perform an API call like this in Logstash? What input plugin do I need to use for it?

   curl -X GET \
   "https://api.balena-cloud.com/v4/release?\$filter=belongs_to__application%20eq%20<APP ID>" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer <AUTH_TOKEN>" 
   

   Reference: https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/api/resources/release/

2. Where should I place the authentiation token, <AUTH_TOKEN> in my input plugin?

[EZprogramming (Kourosh Azizi)]

Note: The curl command that I was executing on the command line was like this:

curl -X GET \
"https://api.balena-cloud.com/v4/release?\$filter=belongs_to__application%20eq%20<APP ID>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <AUTH_TOKEN>" 

Then to do it for Logstash I used the following input plugin solution.

Solution:

input{
  http_poller {
    urls => {      
      authentication => {
        method => get
        user => "myEmailAddress"
        password => "myPassword"
        url => "https://api.balena-cloud.com/v4/release?$filter=belongs_to__application%20eq%20<APP ID>"
        headers => {
          "Content-Type" => "application/json"
          "Authorization" => "Bearer <AUTH_TOKEN>"
        }
      }
    }
    request_timeout => 60
    schedule => { every => "5s"}
    codec => "json"
  }
} 

output{
  stdout { 
    codec => rubydebug 
  }
}