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commit e5ab9f8d38968215e78d2eba51f6697746023545
Author: Volkan Yazıcı <volkan.yaz...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jun 18 16:56:38 2020 +0200
#335 Update manual after feedback from Maurice Zeijen.
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src/site/asciidoc/manual/json-template-layout.adoc | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/site/asciidoc/manual/json-template-layout.adoc
b/src/site/asciidoc/manual/json-template-layout.adoc
index 1faf985..f3e22db 100644
--- a/src/site/asciidoc/manual/json-template-layout.adoc
+++ b/src/site/asciidoc/manual/json-template-layout.adoc
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ appender.console.json.eventTemplateUri =
classpath:LogstashJsonEventLayoutV1.jso
property)
| eventTemplateAdditionalFields
-| KeyValuePair[]
+| EventTemplateAdditionalField[]
| additional key-value pairs appended to the root of the event template
| stackTraceElementTemplate
@@ -227,15 +227,18 @@ appender.console.json.eventTemplateUri =
classpath:LogstashJsonEventLayoutV1.jso
[#additional-event-template-fields]
=== Additonal event template fields
-One can configure additional event template fields via
-`eventTemplateAdditionalFields` as follows:
+Additional event template field is a convenient short-cut to add custom fields
+to a template or override the fields of a template. Following configuration
+overrides the `host` field of the `GelfLayout.json` template and adds two new
+custom fields:
[source,xml]
----
-<JsonTemplateLayout ...>
+<JsonTemplateLayout eventTemplateUri="classpath:GelfLayout.json">
<EventTemplateAdditionalFields>
- <EventTemplateAdditionalField key="serviceName" value="auth-service"/>
- <EventTemplateAdditionalField key="containerId" value="6ede3f0ca7d9"/>
+ <EventTemplateAdditionalField key="host" value="www.apache.org"/>
+ <EventTemplateAdditionalField key="_serviceName" value="auth-service"/>
+ <EventTemplateAdditionalField key="_containerId" value="6ede3f0ca7d9"/>
</EventTemplateAdditionalFields>
</JsonTemplateLayout>
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