These docs are for Cribl Edge 4.0 and are no longer actively maintained.

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Output Router

Output Routers are meta-destinations that allow for output selection based on rules. Rules are evaluated in order, top‑down, with the first match being the winner.

Type: Internal | TLS Support: N/A | PQ Support: N/A

Configuring Cribl Edge to Send to an Output Router

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From the top nav, click Manage, then select a Fleet to configure. Next, you have two options:

To configure via the graphical QuickConnect UI, click Routing > QuickConnect (Stream) or Collect (Edge). Next, click + Add Destination at right. From the resulting drawer’s tiles, select Output Router. Next, click either + Add Destination or (if displayed) Select Existing. The resulting drawer will provide the options below.

Or, to configure via the Routing UI, click Data > Destinations (Stream) or More > Destinations (Edge). From the resulting page’s tiles or the Destinations left nav, select Output Router. Next, click New Destination to open a New Destination modal that provides the options below.

General Settings

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Router name: Enter a unique name to identify this Router definition.

Rules: A list of event routing rules. Each provides the following settings:

• Filter expression: JavaScript expression to select events to send to output.
• Output: Output to send matching events to.
• Description: Optionally, enter a description of this rule’s purpose.
• Final: Toggle to No if you want the event to be checked against other rules lower in the stack.

Optional Settings

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System fields: A list of fields to automatically add to events that use this output. By default, includes cribl_pipe (identifying the Cribl Edge Pipeline that processed the event). Supports wildcards. Other options include:

• cribl_host – Cribl Edge Node that processed the event.
• cribl_wp – Cribl Edge Worker Process that processed the event.
• cribl_input – Cribl Edge Source that processed the event.
• cribl_output – Cribl Edge Destination that processed the event.

Tags: Optionally, add tags that you can use for filtering and grouping at the final destination. Use a tab or hard return between (arbitrary) tag names.

Advanced Settings

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Environment: If you’re using GitOps, optionally use this field to specify a single Git branch on which to enable this configuration. If empty, the config will be enabled everywhere.

Limitations/Options

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• An Output Router cannot reference another. This is by design, to avoid circular references.
• Also to avoid circular references, an Output Router cannot reference a Default Destination that points back to Output Router.
• Events that do not match any of the rules are dropped. Use a catch-all rule to change this behavior.
• No post-processing (conditioning) can be attached to the Output Router Destination itself. But you are free to use pre‑processing Pipelines on the Source tier, and post-processing Pipelines on any or all Destinations that the Output Router references.
• Data can be cloned by toggling the Final flag to No. (The default is Yes, i.e., no cloning.)

Example

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Scenario:

• Send all events where host starts with 66 to Destination San Francisco.
• From the rest of the events: Send all events with method field POST or GET to both Seattle and Los Angeles (i.e., clone them).
• Send the remaining events to New York City.

Router Name: router66