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# Data Prepper configuration reference

This page lists all supported Data Prepper sources, buffers, preppers, and sinks, along with their associated options. For example configuration files, see [Data Prepper](../data-prepper/).


## Data Prepper server options

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
ssl | No | Boolean, indicating whether TLS should be used for server APIs. Defaults to true.
keyStoreFilePath | No | String, path to a .jks or .p12 keystore file. Required if ssl is true.
keyStorePassword | No | String, password for keystore. Optional, defaults to empty string.
privateKeyPassword | No | String, password for private key within keystore. Optional, defaults to empty string.
serverPort | No | Integer, port number to use for server APIs. Defaults to 4900


## General pipeline options

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
workers | No | Integer, default 1. Essentially the number of application threads. As a starting point for your use case, try setting this value to the number of CPU cores on the machine.
delay | No | Integer (milliseconds), default 3,000. How long workers wait between buffer read attempts.


## Sources

Sources define where your data comes from.


### otel_trace_source

Source for the OpenTelemetry Collector.

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
ssl | No | Boolean, whether to connect to the OpenTelemetry Collector over SSL.
sslKeyCertChainFile | No | String, path to the security certificate (e.g. `"config/demo-data-prepper.crt"`.
sslKeyFile | No | String, path to the security certificate key (e.g. `"config/demo-data-prepper.key"`).


### file

Source for flat file input.

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
path | Yes | String, path to the input file (e.g. `logs/my-log.log`).


### pipeline

Source for reading from another pipeline.

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
name | Yes | String, name of the pipeline to read from.


### stdin

Source for console input. Can be useful for testing. No options.


## Buffers

Buffers store data as it passes through the pipeline. If you implement a custom buffer, it can be memory-based (better performance) or disk-based (larger).


### bounded_blocking

The default buffer. Memory-based.

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
buffer_size | No | Integer, default 512. The maximum number of records the buffer accepts.
batch_size | No | Integer, default 8. The maximum number of records the buffer drains after each read.


## Preppers

Preppers perform some action on your data: filter, transform, enrich, etc.


### otel_trace_raw_prepper

Converts OpenTelemetry data to OpenSearch-compatible JSON documents. No options.


### service_map_stateful

Uses OpenTelemetry data to create a distributed service map for visualization in OpenSearch Dashboards. No options.

### peer_forwarder
Forwards ExportTraceServiceRequests via gRPC to other Data Prepper instances. Required for operating Data Prepper in a clustered deployment.

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
time_out | No | Integer, forwarded request timeout in seconds. Defaults to 3 seconds.
span_agg_count | No | Integer, batch size for number of spans per request. Defaults to 48.
discovery_mode | No | String, peer discovery mode to be used. Allowable values are `static` and `dns`. Defaults to `static`.
static_endpoints | No | List, containing string endpoints of all Data Prepper instances.
domain_name | No | String, single domain name to query DNS against. Typically used by creating multiple DNS A Records for the same domain.
ssl | No | Boolean, indicating whether TLS should be used. Default is true.
sslKeyCertChainFile | No | String, path to the security certificate

### string_converter

Converts strings to uppercase or lowercase. Mostly useful as an example if you want to develop your own prepper.

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
upper_case | No | Boolean, whether to convert to uppercase (`true`) or lowercase (`false`).


## Sinks

Sinks define where Data Prepper writes your data to.


### opensearch

Sink for an OpenSearch cluster.

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
hosts | Yes | List of OpenSearch hosts to write to (e.g. `["https://localhost:9200", "https://remote-cluster:9200"]`).
cert | No | String, path to the security certificate (e.g. `"config/root-ca.pem"`) if the cluster uses the OpenSearch security plugin.
username | No | String, username for HTTP basic authentication.
password | No | String, password for HTTP basic authentication.
aws_sigv4 | No | Boolean, whether to use IAM signing to connect to an Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster. For your access key, secret key, and optional session token, Data Prepper uses the default credential chain (environment variables, Java system properties, `~/.aws/credential`, etc.).
aws_region | No | String, AWS region for the cluster (e.g. `"us-east-1"`) if you are connecting to Amazon OpenSearch Service.
trace_analytics_raw | No | Boolean, default false. Whether to export as trace data to the `otel-v1-apm-span-*` index pattern (alias `otel-v1-apm-span`) for use with the Trace Analytics OpenSearch Dashboards plugin.
trace_analytics_service_map | No | Boolean, default false. Whether to export as trace data to the `otel-v1-apm-service-map` index for use with the service map component of the Trace Analytics OpenSearch Dashboards plugin.
index | No | String, name of the index to export to. Only required if you don't use the `trace_analytics_raw` or `trace_analytics_service_map` presets.
template_file | No | String, the path to a JSON [index template](https://opensearch.github.io/for-opensearch-docs/docs/opensearch/index-templates/) file (e.g. `/your/local/template-file.json` if you do not use the `trace_analytics_raw` or `trace_analytics_service_map`. See [otel-v1-apm-span-index-template.json](https://github.com/opensearch-project/data-prepper/blob/main/data-prepper-plugins/opensearch/src/main/resources/otel-v1-apm-span-index-template.json) for an example.
document_id_field | No | String, the field from the source data to use for the OpenSearch document ID (e.g. `"my-field"`) if you don't use the `trace_analytics_raw` or `trace_analytics_service_map` presets.
dlq_file | No | String, the path to your preferred dead letter queue file (e.g. `/your/local/dlq-file`). Data Prepper writes to this file when it fails to index a document on the OpenSearch cluster.
bulk_size | No | Integer (long), default 5. The maximum size (in MiB) of bulk requests to the OpenSearch cluster. Values below 0 indicate an unlimited size. If a single document exceeds the maximum bulk request size, Data Prepper sends it individually.


### file

Sink for flat file output.

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
path | Yes | String, path for the output file (e.g. `logs/my-transformed-log.log`).


### pipeline

Sink for writing to another pipeline.

Option | Required | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
name | Yes | String, name of the pipeline to write to.


### stdout

Sink for console output. Can be useful for testing. No options.