Simple Log Service:Ship logs to MaxCompute (old version)

Limits

• You can create data shipping jobs only by using an Alibaba Cloud account. You cannot create data shipping jobs by using a RAM user.

• Do not ship logs from multiple Logstores to a MaxCompute table. If you ship logs from multiple Logstores to a MaxCompute table, the existing data in the MaxCompute table may be overwritten.

• Logs that are generated 14 days before the current day are automatically discarded in data shipping jobs. The _time_ field specifies the point in time when logs are generated.

• You cannot ship logs whose data type is DECIMAL, DATETIME, DATE, or TIMESTAMP to MaxCompute. For more information, see MaxCompute V2.0 data type edition.

• The following table describes the regions that support data shipping to MaxCompute. If Simple Log Service is deployed in other regions, use DataWorks to synchronize data. For more information, see Use Data Integration to synchronize data from a LogHub data source to a destination.

  Region where your Simple Log Service project resides	Region where a MaxCompute project resides
  China (Qingdao)	China (Shanghai)
  China (Beijing)	China (Beijing) and China (Shanghai)
  China (Zhangjiakou)	China (Shanghai)
  China (Hohhot)	China (Shanghai)
  China (Hangzhou)	China (Shanghai)
  China (Shanghai)	China (Shanghai)
  China (Shenzhen)	China (Shenzhen) and China (Shanghai)
  China (Hong Kong)	China (Shanghai)

Step 1: Create a data shipping job

1. Log on to the Simple Log Service console.

2. In the Projects section, click the project that you want to manage.

   

3. Choose Log Storage > Logstores. On the Logstores tab, find the Logstore that you want to manage, click > and choose Data Transformation > Export > MaxCompute (Formerly ODPS).

4. On the MaxCompute (Formerly ODPS) LogShipper page, click Enable.

5. In the Shipping Notes dialog box, click Ship.

6. In the Ship Data to MaxCompute panel, configure the shipping rule and click OK.

   The following table describes the parameters.

   Parameter	Description
   Select Region	The regions where MaxCompute is supported vary with the region where your Simple Log Service project resides. For more information, see Limits.
   Shipping Job Name	The name of the data shipping job.
   MaxCompute Project Name	The name of the MaxCompute project.
   Table Name	The name of the MaxCompute table.
   MaxCompute Common Column	The mappings between log fields and data columns in the MaxCompute table. In the left field, enter the name of a log field that you want to map to a data column in the MaxCompute table. In the right field, enter the name of the column. For more information, see Data model mapping. Important Simple Log Service ships logs to MaxCompute based on the sequence of the specified log fields and MaxCompute table columns. Changing the names of these columns do not affect the data shipping process. If you modify the schema of a MaxCompute table, you must reconfigure the mappings between log fields and MaxCompute table columns. The name of the log field that you specify in the left field cannot contain double quotation marks ("") or single quotation marks (''). The name cannot be a string that contains spaces. If a log contains two fields that have the same name, such as request_time, Log Service displays one of the fields as request_time_0. The two fields are still stored as request_time in Log Service. When you configure a shipping rule, you can use only the original field name request_time. If a log contains fields that have the same name, Log Service randomly ships the value of one of the fields. We recommend that you do not include fields that have the same name in your logs.
   MaxCompute Partition Column	The mappings between log fields and partition key columns in the MaxCompute table. In the left field, enter the name of a log field that you want to map to a partition key column in the MaxCompute table. In the right field, enter the name of the column. For more information, see Data model mapping. Note You can specify up to three partition key columns. If you specify custom fields as partition key columns, make sure that the number of partitions that can be generated in a data shipping job is less than 512. If the number of partitions is greater than or equal to 512, the data shipping job fails to write data to the specified MaxCompute table, and no data can be shipped.
   Partition Format	For information about the configuration examples and parameters of the partition format, see Examples and Java SimpleDateFormat. Note The partition format takes effect only if a partition field in the MaxCompute Partition Column parameter is set to __partition_time__. We recommend that you do not specify a time partition format that is accurate to seconds. If you specify a time partition format that is accurate to seconds, the number of partitions in the MaxCompute table may exceed the limit of 60,000. Make sure that the number of partitions processed by each data shipping job is less than 512.
   Shipping Interval	The duration of the data shipping job. Default value: 1800. Unit: seconds. When the specified duration elapses, another data shipping job is created.

   After data shipping is enabled, log data is shipped to MaxCompute in 1 hour after the data is written to the Logstore. After the log data is shipped, you can view the log data in MaxCompute. For more information, see How do I check the completeness of data that is shipped from Simple Log Service to MaxCompute?

Step 2: View data in MaxCompute

| log_source | log_time | log_topic | time | ip | thread | log_extract_others | log_partition_time | status |
+------------+------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------------+--------------------+-----------+
| 10.10.*.* | 1453899013 | | 27/Jan/2016:20:50:13 +0800 | 10.10.*.* | 414579208 | {"url":"POST /PutData?Category=YunOsAccountOpLog&AccessKeyId=****************&Date=Fri%2C%2028%20Jun%202013%2006%3A53%3A30%20GMT&Topic=raw&Signature=******************************** HTTP/1.1","user-agent":"aliyun-sdk-java"} | 2016_01_27_20_50 | 200 |
+------------+------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+------------------+--------------------+-----------+

Grant the account for Simple Log Service the permissions to ship data

If you delete a MaxCompute table and create a new MaxCompute table in the DataWorks console, the default authorization that is performed for the previous table becomes invalid. You must grant Simple Log Service the permissions to ship data.

1. Log on to the DataWorks console.

2. In the top navigation bar, select the required region.

3. In the left-side navigation pane, click Workspaces.

4. On the Workspaces page, find the workspace that you want to manage, move the pointer over Shortcuts, and then click Data Development.

5. Create a workflow.

   1. On the Scheduled Workflow page, choose Create > Create Workflow.

   2. In the Create Workflow dialog box, configure the Workflow Name parameter and click Create.

6. Create a node.

   1. On the Scheduled Workflow page, choose Create > Create Node > ODPS SQL.

   2. In the Create Node dialog box, configure the Name and Path parameters, and then click Commit.

      You must set Path to the workflow that you created in Step 5.

7. In the editor of the node, run the required commands to complete the authorization. The following table describes the commands.

   

   Command	Description
   ADD USER aliyun$shennong_open@aliyun.com;	Adds a user to the MaxCompute project. shennong_open@aliyun.com indicates the account for Simple Log Service. You cannot change this value.
   GRANT Read, List ON PROJECT {ODPS_PROJECT_NAME} TO USER aliyun$shennong_open@aliyun.com;	Grants the user the permissions to read and query MaxCompute projects. {ODPS_PROJECT_NAME} specifies the name of the MaxCompute project. Replace the variable with an actual project name.
   GRANT Describe, Alter, Update ON TABLE {ODPS_TABLE_NAME} TO USER aliyun$shennong_open@aliyun.com;	Grants the user the Describe permission, Alter permission, and Update permission. {ODPS_TABLE_NAME} specifies the name of the MaxCompute table. Replace the variable with an actual table name.
   SHOW GRANTS FOR aliyun$shennong_open@aliyun.com;	Checks whether the authorization is successful. If an output that is similar to the following example appears, the authorization is successful: A projects/{ODPS_PROJECT_NAME}: List | Read A projects/{{ODPS_PROJECT_NAME}/tables/{ODPS_TABLE_NAME}: Describe | Alter | Update

Related operations

References

• __partition_time__

  In most cases, MaxCompute filters data by time or uses the timestamp of a log as a partition field.

  • Format

    The value of the __partition_time__ field is calculated based on the value of the __time__ field in Simple Log Service and is rounded down to the nearest integer based on the partition time format. The value of the date partition key column is specified based on the shipping interval. This prevents the number of partitions in a single MaxCompute table from exceeding the limit.

    For example, if the timestamp of a log in Simple Log Service is 27/Jan/2016 20:50:13 +0800, Simple Log Service calculates the value of the __time__ field based on the timestamp. The value is a UNIX timestamp of 1453899013. The following table describes the values of the time partition column in different configurations.

    Shipping Interval	Partition Format	__partition_time__
    1800	yyyy_MM_dd_HH_mm_00	2016_01_27_20_30_00
    1800	yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm	2016-01-27 20:30
    1800	yyyyMMdd	20160127
    3600	yyyyMMddHHmm	201601272000
    3600	yyyy_MM_dd_HH	2016_01_27_20

  • Usage

    You can use the __partition_time__ field to filter data to prevent a full-table scan. For example, you can execute the following query statement to query the log data of January 26, 2016:

    select * from {ODPS_TABLE_NAME} where log_partition_time >= "2015_01_26" and log_partition_time < "2016_01_27";

• __extract_others__

  __extract_others__ indicates a JSON string. For example, you can execute the following query statement to obtain the user-agent content of this field:

  select get_json_object(sls_extract_others, "$.user-agent") from {ODPS_TABLE_NAME} limit 10;

  Note

  • get_json_object indicates the standard user-defined function (UDF) provided by MaxCompute. Contact MaxCompute technical support to grant the permissions that are required to use the standard UDF. For more information, see Standard UDF provided by MaxCompute.

  • The preceding example is for reference only. The instructions provided in MaxCompute documentation prevail.

• Data model mapping

  If a data shipping job ships data from Simple Log Service to MaxCompute, the data model mapping between the two services is enabled. The following table describes the usage notes and provides examples.

  • A MaxCompute table contains at least one data column and one partition key column.

  • We recommend that you use the following reserved fields in Simple Log Service: __partition_time__, __source__, and __topic__.

  • Each MaxCompute table can have a maximum of 60,000 partitions. If the number of partitions exceeds the maximum value, data cannot be written to the table.

  • Data shipping jobs are executed in batches. When you specify custom fields as partition key columns and specify data types for a data shipping job, make sure that the number of partitions that each data shipping job needs to process does not exceed 512. Otherwise, no data can be written to MaxCompute.

  • The previous name of the system reserved field __extract_others__ is _extract_others_. Both names can be used together.

  • The value of the MaxCompute partition key column cannot be set to reserved words or keywords of MaxCompute. For more information, see Reserved words and keywords.

  • You cannot leave the fields of MaxCompute partition key columns empty. The fields that are mapped to partition key columns must be reserved fields or log fields. You can use the cast function to convert a field of the string type to the type of the corresponding partition key column. Logs that correspond to an empty partition key column are discarded during data shipping.

  • In Simple Log Service, a log field can be mapped to only one data column or partition key column of a MaxCompute table. Field redundancy is not supported. If the same field name is reused, the value that is shipped is null. If null appears in the partition key column, data cannot be shipped.

  The following table describes the mapping relationships between MaxCompute data columns, partition key columns, and Simple Log Service fields. For more information about reserved fields in Simple Log Service, see Reserved fields.

  MaxCompute column type	Column name in MaxCompute	Data type in MaxCompute	Log field name in Simple Log Service	Field type in Simple Log Service	Description
  Data column	log_source	string	__source__	Reserved field	The source of the log.
  	log_time	bigint	__time__	Reserved field	The UNIX timestamp of the log. It is the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC, Thursday, January 1, 1970. This field corresponds to the Time field in the data model.
  	log_topic	string	__topic__	Reserved field	The topic of the log.
  	time	string	time	Log content field	This field is parsed from logs and corresponds to the key-value field in the data model. In most cases, the value of the __time__ field in the data that is collected by using Logtail is the same as the value of the time field.
  	ip	string	ip	Log content field	This field is parsed from logs.
  	thread	string	thread	Log content field	This field is parsed from logs.
  	log_extract_others	string	__extract_others__	Reserved field	Other log fields that are not mapped in the configuration are serialized into JSON data based on the key-value field. The JSON data has a single-layer structure and JSON nesting is not supported for the log fields.
  Partition key column	log_partition_time	string	__partition_time__	Reserved field	This field is calculated based on the value of the __time__ field of the log. You can specify the partition granularity for the field.
  	status	string	status	Log content field	This field is parsed from logs. The value of this field supports enumeration to ensure that the number of partitions does not exceed the upper limit.