salt.returners.elasticsearch_return¶

Return data to an elasticsearch server for indexing.

To enable this returner the elasticsearch python client must be installed on the desired minions (all or some subset).

The required configuration is as follows:

elasticsearch:
  host: 'somehost.example.com:9200'
  index: 'salt'
  number_of_shards: 1 (optional)
  number_of_replicas: 0 (optional)

or to specify multiple elasticsearch hosts for resiliency:

elasticsearch:
  host:
    - 'somehost.example.com:9200'
    - 'anotherhost.example.com:9200'
    - 'yetanotherhost.example.com:9200'
  index: 'salt'
  number_of_shards: 1 (optional)
  number_of_replicas: 0 (optional)

The above configuration can be placed in a targeted pillar, minion or master configurations.

To use the returner per salt call:

salt '*' test.ping --return elasticsearch

In order to have the returner apply to all minions:

ext_job_cache: elasticsearch

salt.returners.elasticsearch_return.prep_jid(nocache=False, passed_jid=None)¶

Do any work necessary to prepare a JID, including sending a custom id

salt.returners.elasticsearch_return.returner(ret)¶

Process the return from Salt