Remove strftime specifiers from the templating syntax #6254
Labels
domain: config
Anything related to configuring Vector
domain: templating
Anything related to templating Vector's configuration values
type: enhancement
A value-adding code change that enhances its existing functionality.
The current support for strftime specifiers in the templating syntax was a quick hack to allow for date-based partitioning:
The obvious limitation of this is the assumption that the
timestamp
field should be used to derive their formatted dates. What if a user wants to use another field?Given that we decided against supporting the Remap syntax in #3836, we should do 1 of 2 things:
remap
transform.I lean towards 1 until we see more reasons to do 2.
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