Improve event normalization performance (#22974)

Co-authored-by: Jaime Soriano Pastor <jaime.soriano@elastic.co>
elastic · Dec 9, 2020 · d9d337c · d9d337c
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -540,6 +540,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v7.0.0-alpha2...master[Check the HEAD d
 - Update k8s client and release k8s leader lock gracefully {pull}22919[22919]
 - Improve equals check. {pull}22778[22778]
 - Added "detect_mime_type" processor for detecting mime types {pull}22940[22940]
+- Improve event normalization performance {pull}22974[22974]
 - Add tini as init system in docker images {pull}22137[22137]
 
 *Auditbeat*

diff --git a/libbeat/publisher/processing/default_test.go b/libbeat/publisher/processing/default_test.go
@@ -325,6 +325,20 @@ func TestNormalization(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func BenchmarkNormalization(b *testing.B) {
+	s, err := MakeDefaultSupport(true)(beat.Info{}, logp.L(), common.NewConfig())
+	require.NoError(b, err)
+
+	prog, err := s.Create(beat.ProcessingConfig{}, false)
+	require.NoError(b, err)
+
+	fields := common.MapStr{"a": "b"}
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		f := fields.Clone()
+		_, _ = prog.Run(&beat.Event{Fields: f})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestAlwaysDrop(t *testing.T) {
 	s, err := MakeDefaultSupport(true)(beat.Info{}, logp.L(), common.NewConfig())
 	require.NoError(t, err)

diff --git a/libbeat/publisher/processing/processors.go b/libbeat/publisher/processing/processors.go
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ type processorFn struct {
 
 func newGeneralizeProcessor(keepNull bool) *processorFn {
 	logger := logp.NewLogger("publisher_processing")
+	g := common.NewGenericEventConverter(keepNull)
 	return newProcessor("generalizeEvent", func(event *beat.Event) (*beat.Event, error) {
 		// Filter out empty events. Empty events are still reported by ACK callbacks.
 		if len(event.Fields) == 0 {
 			return nil, nil
 		}
 
-		g := common.NewGenericEventConverter(keepNull)
 		fields := g.Convert(event.Fields)
 		if fields == nil {
 			logger.Error("fail to convert to generic event")