wrapped_json_correctness

Wrapped JSON Correctness Test

This test verifies that wrapped JSON documents are parsed correctly:

{"log":"{\"message\":\"Hello world\"}"}

This is a very important for environments that wrap log output in a JSON document, such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Results

Subject	Result
Filebeat	✅
FluentBit	❌
FluentD	✅
Logstash	✅
Splunk HF	✅
Splunk UF	✅
Vector	✅

Design

The subject is configured to:

1. Receive the following data:

   {"log":"{\"message\":\"Hello world\"}"}

2. Parse the data as JSON

3. Output the data, re-encoded as JSON

Try It

You can run this test via:

test -t wrapped_json_correctness

Resources

• Setup
• Development
• How it works
• Vector docs
• Vector repo
• Vector website