Direct EMF output to stdout to support AWS Lambda

exporter/awsemfexporter/README.md

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ The following exporter configuration parameters are supported.
 | `max_retries`     | Maximum number of retries before abandoning an attempt to post data.   |    1    |
 | `dimension_rollup_option`| DimensionRollupOption is the option for metrics dimension rollup. Three options are available. |"ZeroAndSingleDimensionRollup" (Enable both zero dimension rollup and single dimension rollup)| 
 | `resource_to_telemetry_conversion` | "resource_to_telemetry_conversion" is the option for converting resource attributes to telemetry attributes. It has only one config onption- `enabled`. For metrics, if `enabled=true`, all the resource attributes will be converted to metric labels by default. See `Resource Attributes to Metric Labels` section below for examples. | `enabled=false` | 
+| `output_destination` | "output_destination" is an option to specify the EMFExporter output. Currently, two options are available. "cloudwatch" or "stdout" | `cloudwatch` | 
 | `parse_json_encoded_attr_values` | List of attribute keys whose corresponding values are JSON-encoded strings and will be converted to  JSON structures in emf logs. For example, the attribute string value "{\\"x\\":5,\\"y\\":6}" will be converted to a json object: ```{"x": 5, "y": 6}```| [ ] | 
 | [`metric_declarations`](#metric_declaration) | List of rules for filtering exported metrics and their dimensions. |    [ ]   |
 | [`metric_descriptors`](#metric_descriptor) | List of rules for inserting or updating metric descriptors.| [ ]|

exporter/awsemfexporter/config.go

@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ type Config struct {
 	// MetricDescriptors is the list of override metric descriptors that are sent to the CloudWatch
 	MetricDescriptors []MetricDescriptor `mapstructure:"metric_descriptors"`
 
+	// OutputDestination is an option to specify the EMFExporter output. Default option is "cloudwatch"
+	// "cloudwatch" - direct the exporter output to CloudWatch backend
+	// "stdout" - direct the exporter output to stdout
+	// TODO: we can support directing output to a file (in the future) while customer specifies a file path here.
+	OutputDestination string `mapstructure:"output_destination"`
+
 	// ResourceToTelemetrySettings is the option for converting resource attrihutes to telemetry attributes.
 	// "Enabled" - A boolean field to enable/disable this option. Default is `false`.
 	// If enabled, all the resource attributes will be converted to metric labels by default.

exporter/awsemfexporter/config_test.go

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ func TestLoadConfig(t *testing.T) {
 			Region:                          "us-west-2",
 			RoleARN:                         "arn:aws:iam::123456789:role/monitoring-EKS-NodeInstanceRole",
 			DimensionRollupOption:           "ZeroAndSingleDimensionRollup",
+			OutputDestination:               "cloudwatch",
 			ParseJSONEncodedAttributeValues: make([]string, 0),
 			MetricDeclarations:              []*MetricDeclaration{},
 			MetricDescriptors:               []MetricDescriptor{},
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ func TestLoadConfig(t *testing.T) {
 			Region:                          "",
 			RoleARN:                         "",
 			DimensionRollupOption:           "ZeroAndSingleDimensionRollup",
+			OutputDestination:               "cloudwatch",
 			ResourceToTelemetrySettings:     exporterhelper.ResourceToTelemetrySettings{Enabled: true},
 			ParseJSONEncodedAttributeValues: make([]string, 0),
 			MetricDeclarations:              []*MetricDeclaration{},

exporter/awsemfexporter/emf_exporter.go

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
@@ -31,6 +32,12 @@ import (
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
 )
 
+const (
+	// OutputDestination Options
+	outputDestinationCloudWatch = "cloudwatch"
+	outputDestinationStdout     = "stdout"
+)
+
 type emfExporter struct {
 	//Each (log group, log stream) keeps a separate Pusher because of each (log group, log stream) requires separate stream token.
 	groupStreamToPusherMap map[string]map[string]Pusher
@@ -119,6 +126,7 @@ func (emf *emfExporter) pushMetricsData(_ context.Context, md pdata.Metrics) err
 	groupedMetrics := make(map[interface{}]*GroupedMetric)
 	expConfig := emf.config.(*Config)
 	defaultLogStream := fmt.Sprintf("otel-stream-%s", emf.collectorID)
+	outputDestination := expConfig.OutputDestination
 
 	for i := 0; i < rms.Len(); i++ {
 		rm := rms.At(i)
@@ -128,31 +136,37 @@ func (emf *emfExporter) pushMetricsData(_ context.Context, md pdata.Metrics) err
 	for _, groupedMetric := range groupedMetrics {
 		cWMetric := translateGroupedMetricToCWMetric(groupedMetric, expConfig)
 		putLogEvent := translateCWMetricToEMF(cWMetric, expConfig)
+		// Currently we only support two options for "OutputDestination".
+		if strings.EqualFold(outputDestination, outputDestinationStdout) {
+			fmt.Println(*putLogEvent.InputLogEvent.Message)
+		} else if strings.EqualFold(outputDestination, outputDestinationCloudWatch) {
+			logGroup := groupedMetric.Metadata.LogGroup
+			logStream := groupedMetric.Metadata.LogStream
+			if logStream == "" {
+				logStream = defaultLogStream
+			}
 
-		logGroup := groupedMetric.Metadata.LogGroup
-		logStream := groupedMetric.Metadata.LogStream
-		if logStream == "" {
-			logStream = defaultLogStream
-		}
-
-		pusher := emf.getPusher(logGroup, logStream)
-		if pusher != nil {
-			returnError := pusher.AddLogEntry(putLogEvent)
-			if returnError != nil {
-				return wrapErrorIfBadRequest(&returnError)
+			pusher := emf.getPusher(logGroup, logStream)
+			if pusher != nil {
+				returnError := pusher.AddLogEntry(putLogEvent)
+				if returnError != nil {
+					return wrapErrorIfBadRequest(&returnError)
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
 
-	for _, pusher := range emf.listPushers() {
-		returnError := pusher.ForceFlush()
-		if returnError != nil {
-			//TODO now we only have one pusher, so it's ok to return after first error occurred
-			err := wrapErrorIfBadRequest(&returnError)
-			if err != nil {
-				emf.logger.Error("Error force flushing logs. Skipping to next pusher.", zap.Error(err))
+	if strings.EqualFold(outputDestination, outputDestinationCloudWatch) {
+		for _, pusher := range emf.listPushers() {
+			returnError := pusher.ForceFlush()
+			if returnError != nil {
+				//TODO now we only have one pusher, so it's ok to return after first error occurred
+				err := wrapErrorIfBadRequest(&returnError)
+				if err != nil {
+					emf.logger.Error("Error force flushing logs. Skipping to next pusher.", zap.Error(err))
+				}
+				return err
 			}
-			return err
 		}
 	}
 

exporter/awsemfexporter/emf_exporter_test.go

@@ -122,6 +122,66 @@ func TestConsumeMetrics(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, exp.Shutdown(ctx))
 }
 
+func TestConsumeMetricsWithOutputDestination(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	factory := NewFactory()
+	expCfg := factory.CreateDefaultConfig().(*Config)
+	expCfg.Region = "us-west-2"
+	expCfg.MaxRetries = 0
+	expCfg.OutputDestination = "stdout"
+	exp, err := New(expCfg, component.ExporterCreateParams{Logger: zap.NewNop()})
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	assert.NotNil(t, exp)
+
+	mdata := internaldata.MetricsData{
+		Node: &commonpb.Node{
+			ServiceInfo: &commonpb.ServiceInfo{Name: "test-emf"},
+			LibraryInfo: &commonpb.LibraryInfo{ExporterVersion: "SomeVersion"},
+		},
+		Resource: &resourcepb.Resource{
+			Labels: map[string]string{
+				"resource": "R1",
+			},
+		},
+		Metrics: []*metricspb.Metric{
+			{
+				MetricDescriptor: &metricspb.MetricDescriptor{
+					Name:        "spanCounter",
+					Description: "Counting all the spans",
+					Unit:        "Count",
+					Type:        metricspb.MetricDescriptor_CUMULATIVE_INT64,
+					LabelKeys: []*metricspb.LabelKey{
+						{Key: "spanName"},
+						{Key: "isItAnError"},
+					},
+				},
+				Timeseries: []*metricspb.TimeSeries{
+					{
+						LabelValues: []*metricspb.LabelValue{
+							{Value: "testSpan", HasValue: true},
+							{Value: "false", HasValue: true},
+						},
+						Points: []*metricspb.Point{
+							{
+								Timestamp: &timestamp.Timestamp{
+									Seconds: 1234567890123,
+								},
+								Value: &metricspb.Point_Int64Value{
+									Int64Value: 1,
+								},
+							},
+						},
+					},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+	md := internaldata.OCToMetrics(mdata)
+	require.NoError(t, exp.ConsumeMetrics(ctx, md))
+	require.NoError(t, exp.Shutdown(ctx))
+}
+
 func TestConsumeMetricsWithLogGroupStreamConfig(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 	defer cancel()

exporter/awsemfexporter/factory.go

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ func createDefaultConfig() configmodels.Exporter {
 		DimensionRollupOption:           "ZeroAndSingleDimensionRollup",
 		ParseJSONEncodedAttributeValues: make([]string, 0),
 		MetricDeclarations:              make([]*MetricDeclaration, 0),
+		OutputDestination:               "cloudwatch",
 		logger:                          nil,
 	}
 }