[exporter/awsemf] Fix possible panic when using stdout output_destination

.chloggen/awsemf_stdoutpanic.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: bug_fix
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. filelogreceiver)
+component: awsemfexporter
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Fix possible panic in when configuration option `awsemf.output_destination:stdout` is set
+
+# Mandatory: One or more tracking issues related to the change. You can use the PR number here if no issue exists.
+issues: [26250]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
+
+# If your change doesn't affect end users or the exported elements of any package,
+# you should instead start your pull request title with [chore] or use the "Skip Changelog" label.
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: []

exporter/awsemfexporter/emf_exporter.go

@@ -106,10 +106,17 @@ func (emf *emfExporter) pushMetricsData(_ context.Context, md pmetric.Metrics) e
 
 	for _, groupedMetric := range groupedMetrics {
 		cWMetric := translateGroupedMetricToCWMetric(groupedMetric, emf.config)
-		putLogEvent := translateCWMetricToEMF(cWMetric, emf.config)
+		putLogEvent, err := translateCWMetricToEMF(cWMetric, emf.config)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
 		// Currently we only support two options for "OutputDestination".
 		if strings.EqualFold(outputDestination, outputDestinationStdout) {
-			fmt.Println(*putLogEvent.InputLogEvent.Message)
+			if putLogEvent != nil &&
+				putLogEvent.InputLogEvent != nil &&
+				putLogEvent.InputLogEvent.Message != nil {
+				fmt.Println(*putLogEvent.InputLogEvent.Message)
+			}
 		} else if strings.EqualFold(outputDestination, outputDestinationCloudWatch) {
 			logGroup := groupedMetric.metadata.logGroup
 			logStream := groupedMetric.metadata.logStream

exporter/awsemfexporter/metric_translator.go

@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ func groupedMetricToCWMeasurementsWithFilters(groupedMetric *groupedMetric, conf
 }
 
 // translateCWMetricToEMF converts CloudWatch Metric format to EMF.
-func translateCWMetricToEMF(cWMetric *cWMetrics, config *Config) *cwlogs.Event {
+func translateCWMetricToEMF(cWMetric *cWMetrics, config *Config) (*cwlogs.Event, error) {
 	// convert CWMetric into map format for compatible with PLE input
 	fieldMap := cWMetric.fields
 
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ func translateCWMetricToEMF(cWMetric *cWMetrics, config *Config) *cwlogs.Event {
 
 	pleMsg, err := json.Marshal(fieldMap)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil
+		return nil, err
 	}
 
 	metricCreationTime := cWMetric.timestampMs
@@ -443,5 +443,5 @@ func translateCWMetricToEMF(cWMetric *cWMetrics, config *Config) *cwlogs.Event {
 	)
 	logEvent.GeneratedTime = time.Unix(0, metricCreationTime*int64(time.Millisecond))
 
-	return logEvent
+	return logEvent, nil
 }

exporter/awsemfexporter/metric_translator_test.go

@@ -453,7 +453,8 @@ func TestTranslateCWMetricToEMF(t *testing.T) {
 				measurements: tc.measurements,
 			}
 
-			emfLogEvent := translateCWMetricToEMF(cloudwatchMetric, config)
+			emfLogEvent, err := translateCWMetricToEMF(cloudwatchMetric, config)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
 
 			assert.Equal(t, tc.expectedEMFLogEvent, *emfLogEvent.InputLogEvent.Message)
 		})
@@ -2174,7 +2175,8 @@ func BenchmarkTranslateCWMetricToEMF(b *testing.B) {
 
 	b.ResetTimer()
 	for n := 0; n < b.N; n++ {
-		translateCWMetricToEMF(met, &Config{})
+		_, err := translateCWMetricToEMF(met, &Config{})
+		require.NoError(b, err)
 	}
 }