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Google SecOps is deprecating the legacy Ingestion API (malachiteingestion-pa.googleapis.com), which out_chronicle currently uses exclusively. New instances lose access on October 26, 2026 and the API shuts down on July 20, 2027 (deprecations, migration guide).

This PR adds support for the Chronicle API logs.import method behind a new api option. legacy stays the default, so existing configurations keep working during the transition, as the issue asks.

Fixes #12157

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out_chronicle: add support for the Chronicle API

  • New api property: legacy (default) or chronicle.
  • With api chronicle, records are sent to:
    POST https://{region}-chronicle.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project_id}/locations/{region}/instances/{customer_id}/logTypes/{log_type}/logs:import
    • Existing properties are reused. customer_id is the SecOps instance ID, project_id is the linked Google Cloud project (still falls back to the credentials file), and region is the instance location (us, europe, europe-west2, and so on). The region is lowercased, defaults to us, and is validated as a hostname label.
    • The OAuth scope is https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform, the same one Google's own SecOps SDK and ingestion scripts use.
    • Each record becomes a Log with base64 data, logEntryTime, and collectionTime. collectionTime is the flush time. The API requires it to be later than logEntryTime, so a record timestamp that isn't in the past gets logEntryTime + 1 ms. The record also carries environmentNamespace (from namespace / namespace_key) and labels (from label, sent as a map {"key": {"value": ...}}).
    • The existing record accessor resolution, log_key handling, and batch splitting on namespace/label changes are reused unchanged.
    • project_id, customer_id, and log_type are interpolated into the URL path, so they are checked against RFC 3986 unreserved characters plus : (for domain-scoped project IDs). Labels become a JSON map, so duplicate label keys are rejected at startup.
    • The startup log type check (GET /v2/logtypes) only runs for legacy. Chronicle API v1 has no logTypes.get, and logTypes.list is paginated and needs an extra IAM permission (chronicle.logTypes.list). logs.import itself rejects unknown log types.
    • Response handling follows Google's guidance. 2xx returns FLB_OK. 4xx returns FLB_ERROR, so it is not retried and an error is logged, except 401, 408 and 429. 5xx and anything else return FLB_RETRY. A permanently invalid log_type or missing permissions therefore can't be retried forever. Legacy keeps retrying every non-200, as before.
    • The request size cap follows the Chronicle API's 4 MB limit instead of the legacy 1 MiB.
  • The legacy payload packing moved into its own function with identical output, so chronicle_format() just dispatches between the two formats.

out_chronicle: fix sub-second part of RFC 3339 timestamps (separate commit, also affects legacy)

  • ts_rfc3339 printed the fraction as "%03" PRIu64 of tv_nsec, so nanosecond values below 100,000,000 lost their leading zeros. For example, 62,500,000 ns was sent as .62500000Z (0.625 s instead of 0.0625 s), so roughly 10% of timestamps were off by up to ~0.9 s. Fractions are now always 9 digits, and the same helper is reused for the Chronicle API timestamps.

out_chronicle: report failed requests of a split chunk (separate commit, also affects legacy)

  • A chunk whose payload exceeds the request cap is sent in several requests, but the flush result only reflected the last one. A later success hid an earlier failure, so a batch that needed a retry was silently dropped. The flush now stops at the first FLB_RETRY, because a retry re-sends the whole chunk. After an FLB_ERROR it sends the remaining batches and then reports FLB_ERROR.

Tests are in two separate commits.

Compatibility

  • No change for existing configurations: api defaults to legacy, and the legacy endpoint, scope, payload shape, and log type check are unchanged.
  • The only observable legacy difference is the corrected fraction in ts_rfc3339, which now always has 9 digits.

Example configuration

Before (legacy, still the default):

[OUTPUT]
    name                       chronicle
    match                      *
    google_service_credentials /path/to/sa.json
    customer_id                01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef
    log_type                   TEST_LOG
    region                     EU

After (Chronicle API):

[OUTPUT]
    name                       chronicle
    match                      *
    api                        chronicle
    google_service_credentials /path/to/sa.json
    project_id                 my-secops-project
    customer_id                01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef
    log_type                   TEST_LOG
    region                     europe-west2
    namespace_key              $tenant
    label                      env production
    log_key                    message

The service account needs the chronicle.logs.import permission in the project linked to the SecOps instance.

Testing

I don't have access to a real Google SecOps tenant, so everything below runs against the documented API contract. A smoke test by someone with a tenant would be welcome.

Runtime tests: ctest --test-dir build -R flb-rt-out_chronicle --output-on-failure, 100% passed (20 cases, 11 new). The new timestamp test fails on the old code (.62500000Z) and passes with the fix. The new cases cover:

  • the logs:import payload shape and base64 data
  • log_key with the Chronicle API
  • environmentNamespace and the labels map
  • collectionTime for future records, including the carry into the next second
  • the HTTP status classification of both APIs, via the test_response hook
  • init failures for an invalid api, an invalid region, a log_type containing /, and duplicate label keys

Valgrind, runtime tests (valgrind --leak-check=full ./bin/flb-rt-out_chronicle --no-exec, so all cases run in one process): ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors, All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible (68,130 allocs and 68,130 frees).

End-to-end with the unmodified binary. Inside a container, oauth2.googleapis.com, europe-west2-chronicle.googleapis.com, and malachiteingestion-pa.googleapis.com were mapped to a local HTTPS fake server (--add-host), with a throwaway CA added to the container's trust store. The fake server records every request and decodes the JWT claims.

  • api chronicle: the token request carries the cloud-platform scope. region EUROPE-WEST2 resolves to europe-west2-chronicle.googleapis.com with the correct import path, the Bearer token is sent, and data decodes back to the log_key value.
  • api legacy (regression): the token request carries the malachite-ingestion scope. The run does GET /v2/logtypes and then POST /v2/unstructuredlogentries:batchCreate with the same body shape as before.
  • Large backlog with api chronicle: a 7 MB file of 60,000 lines (in_tail) was sent in 5 requests of at most 3.61 MB, and every record arrived exactly once.
  • Status handling with Retry_Limit 3: a 404 (unknown log type) is sent once and dropped with an error, and a 503 is sent and then retried three times.
  • Split chunks: with the old code, a 503 on the first batch of a legacy chunk lost records 0–5714 while the engine reported success, and a 400 on the first batch with api chronicle was hidden (errors=0). With the fix, the chunk is retried and all 60,000 records arrive exactly once, and the 400 is reported (errors=1) while the other batches are still delivered.
  • Both modes, the 404 path and both split-chunk scenarios also ran end to end under valgrind with 0 errors and no leaks.
Captured Chronicle API request
POST https://europe-west2-chronicle.googleapis.com/v1/projects/my-secops-project/locations/europe-west2/instances/01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef/logTypes/TEST_LOG/logs:import
Authorization: Bearer fake-access-token

{
  "inlineSource": {
    "logs": [
      {
        "data": "aGVsbG8gZnJvbSBmbHVlbnQtYml0",
        "logEntryTime": "2026-10-09T20:49:30.076780837Z",
        "collectionTime": "2026-10-09T20:49:31.169664435Z",
        "environmentNamespace": "tenant-a",
        "labels": {
          "env": {
            "value": "production"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Token request JWT claims: {"iss": "fluent-bit@creds-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com", "scope": "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform", "aud": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token", ...}

Debug log + valgrind output (api chronicle, end to end)
==1090== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==1090== Command: /home/fancybear/fluent-bit/build/bin/fluent-bit -c /e2e/chronicle.conf
Fluent Bit v5.1.4
[ info] [fluent bit] version=5.1.4, commit=0f898f55b7, pid=1090
[ info] [input:dummy:dummy.0] initializing
[ info] [output:chronicle:chronicle.0] api='chronicle' project='my-secops-project' customer_id='01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef' location='europe-west2'
[debug] [output:chronicle:chronicle.0] JWT signature:
<JWT signed with a throwaway test key, elided>
[debug] [oauth2] HTTP Status=200
[ info] [oauth2] access token from 'oauth2.googleapis.com:443' retrieved
[debug] [task] created task=0x5b088b0 id=0 OK
[debug] [upstream] KA connection #31 to europe-west2-chronicle.googleapis.com:443 is connected
[debug] [output:chronicle:chronicle.0] the last offset of msgpack decoder is 60
[debug] [output:chronicle:chronicle.0] HTTP Status=200
[debug] [upstream] KA connection #31 to europe-west2-chronicle.googleapis.com:443 is now available
[debug] [task] destroy task=0x5b088b0 (task_id=0)
[debug] [task] created task=0x6c3df60 id=0 OK
[debug] [upstream] KA connection #31 to europe-west2-chronicle.googleapis.com:443 has been assigned (recycled)
[debug] [output:chronicle:chronicle.0] HTTP Status=200
[debug] [task] destroy task=0x6c3df60 (task_id=0)
[debug] [task] created task=0x6cd4090 id=0 OK
[debug] [output:chronicle:chronicle.0] HTTP Status=200
[debug] [task] destroy task=0x6cd4090 (task_id=0)
[engine] caught signal (SIGINT)
[ info] [engine] service has stopped (0 pending tasks)
==1090== HEAP SUMMARY:
==1090==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==1090==   total heap usage: 19,365 allocs, 19,365 frees, 4,613,454 bytes allocated
==1090== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==1090== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

Commit lint: GITHUB_EVENT_NAME=pull_request GITHUB_BASE_REF=master python .github/scripts/commit_prefix_check.py passed for the full PR range.

tests/integration has no out_chronicle scenario, so no Python integration suite applies.


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  • New Features
    • Added support for sending logs through either the legacy Ingestion API or Chronicle’s logs:import API. The legacy API remains the default.
    • Chronicle API requests include encoded log data, timestamps, and optional namespace and labels.
    • Payload limits now follow the configured maximum size.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved timestamp precision and ensured collection timestamps do not precede future log-entry timestamps.
    • Invalid API settings and Chronicle configuration values are rejected at startup.
    • Chronicle API responses now distinguish non-retryable client errors from retryable errors.

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The Chronicle output can select the legacy Ingestion API or Chronicle logs:import API. Configuration builds API-specific endpoints and validates Chronicle settings. Formatting, OAuth scope selection, payload-size handling, and HTTP response handling use the selected API.

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Chronicle API output

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API configuration and validation
plugins/out_chronicle/chronicle.h, plugins/out_chronicle/chronicle_conf.c, plugins/out_chronicle/chronicle.c, tests/runtime/out_chronicle.c
Adds API selection with legacy as the default. Chronicle configuration validates region, path segments, and duplicate label keys, then builds the logs:import endpoint. Legacy-only log-type validation and startup tests cover invalid settings.
API-specific payload formatting and limits
plugins/out_chronicle/chronicle.c, tests/runtime/out_chronicle.c
Selects legacy or Chronicle payload formatting. Chronicle payloads include base64 log data, entry and collection timestamps, and optional namespace and labels. OAuth scope and payload-size handling follow the selected API. Tests cover payload formatting and timestamps.
API-specific HTTP response handling
plugins/out_chronicle/chronicle.c, tests/runtime/out_chronicle.c
Applies API-specific success, retry, and non-retryable error mappings to HTTP responses. Split requests stop on retry and retain non-retryable errors while processing remaining requests. Tests check status handling for both APIs.

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The fraction of 'ts_rfc3339' was printed from tv_nsec with a minimum
width of three digits, so any nanosecond value below 100000000 lost its
leading zeros, e.g: 62500000 ns was sent as ".62500000Z" (0.625s)
instead of 0.0625s.

Format the fraction with the full nine digits in a helper that can be
shared by other payload formats.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: cozybear-dev <7195866+cozybear-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: cozybear-dev <7195866+cozybear-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
Google SecOps is deprecating the legacy Ingestion API
(malachiteingestion-pa.googleapis.com) in favor of the Chronicle API.
New instances cannot use the legacy API from October 26, 2026 and it
shuts down on July 20, 2027.

Add the 'api' property to select the ingestion API. The default,
'legacy', keeps the current unstructuredlogentries:batchCreate behavior
so existing configurations are not affected. With 'chronicle', records
are sent to the logs:import method of the Chronicle API:

  POST https://{region}-chronicle.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project_id}
       /locations/{region}/instances/{customer_id}/logTypes/{log_type}
       /logs:import

The existing properties are reused: 'customer_id' is the Google SecOps
instance, 'project_id' the Google Cloud project linked to it, and
'region' the location of the instance (default: us). The access token
is requested with the cloud-platform scope.

Each record becomes a Log with its base64 encoded 'data', the record
time as 'logEntryTime' and the flush time as 'collectionTime'. The API
requires the collection time to be later than the record time, so records
that are not in the past use the record time plus one millisecond.
'namespace' and 'label' map to 'environmentNamespace' and 'labels'. Since
labels are sent as a map, duplicate label keys are rejected at startup.

Supported log types are only validated at startup with the legacy API,
the Chronicle API rejects unknown log types on import. Such client errors
fail again on every retry, so with the Chronicle API a 4xx response is
reported as an error instead of being retried, except for 401, 408 and
429. The maximum request size follows the 4 MB limit of the Chronicle API.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: cozybear-dev <7195866+cozybear-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
Cover the logs:import payload, the base64 encoded log_key value, the
namespace and labels map, the collection time of records from the
future, the rejection of invalid api, region, log_type and duplicate
label settings, and the handling of HTTP response statuses of both APIs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: cozybear-dev <7195866+cozybear-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
A chunk is sent in several requests when its payload exceeds the
request size limit, but the flush result only reflected the last
request. A later success hid an earlier failure, so a request that had
to be retried was dropped without a retry, and a request rejected by the
Chronicle API was not reported as an error.

Stop at the first request that must be retried, since a retry sends the
whole chunk again. After a rejected request, keep sending the rest of
the chunk and report the error once it is done.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: cozybear-dev <7195866+cozybear-dev@users.noreply.github.com>
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Rebased onto current master (a92d414c1) to pick up #12540. No content changes: the diff is identical to the previous head (c6d930f15).

Context for the earlier red run, which tested a merge into 0f898f55b:

  • flb-it-signv4 failed in all 22 Ubuntu jobs. It was failing on master at that commit and is fixed by tests: fix signv4 fixtures with raw request targets #12540.
  • flb-rt-out_http (format_json_stream) failed in 2 of the 22 Ubuntu jobs. The same test fails in the master run for a92d414c1.
  • in_http_tls_expect.ps1 failed on Windows x64 because it could not bind 127.0.0.1:50000.

flb-rt-out_chronicle passed in all 22 Ubuntu jobs and on Windows x64. The new run is waiting for workflow approval.

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