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Overview
This Adapter allows you to ingest files/blobs stored in AWS S3.
Note that this adapter operates as a sink by default, meaning it will "consume" files from the S3 bucket by deleting them once ingested.
AWS S3 Requirements
Required IAM Permissions:
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
      {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "s3:ListBucket",
          "s3:GetObject",
          "s3:DeleteObject"
        ],
        "Resource": [
          "arn:aws:s3:::your-bucket-name",
          "arn:aws:s3:::your-bucket-name/*"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }Configurations
Adapter Type: s3
client_options: common configuration for adapter as defined here.bucket_name: the name of the bucket to ingest from.access_key: an Access Key from S3 used to access the bucket.secret_key: the secret key associated with theaccess_keyused to access the bucket.prefix: only ingest files with a given path prefix. Do not include a leading/in the prefix.single_load: iftrue, the adapter will not operate as a sink, it will ingest all files in the bucket once and will then exit.
Infrastructure as Code Deployment
# AWS S3 Specific Docs: https://docs.limacharlie.io/docs/adapter-types-s3
# For cloud sensor deployment, store credentials as hive secrets:
#   access_key: "hive://secret/aws-access-key"
#   secret_key: "hive://secret/aws-secret-key"
sensor_type: "s3"
s3:
  bucket_name: "your-s3-bucket-name-for-logs"
  access_key: "hive://secret/aws-s3-access-key"
  secret_key: "hive://secret/aws-s3-secret-key"
  client_options:
    identity:
      oid: "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
      installation_key: "YOUR_LC_INSTALLATION_KEY_S3"
    hostname: "aws-s3-adapter"
    platform: "json"
    sensor_seed_key: "s3-log-processor"
    mapping:
      sensor_hostname_path: "source_host"
      event_type_path: "event_category"
      event_time_path: "timestamp"
    indexing: []
  # Optional S3-specific configuration
  prefix: "logs/application_xyz/"              # Filter by object prefix
  parallel_fetch: 5                           # Parallel downloads
  single_load: false                          # Continuous processingAPI Doc
See the official documentation.
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