Basic Configuration Structure

The basic structure of the Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows configuration file is a JSON document with the following template:

{
     "Sources": [ ],
     "Sinks": [ ],
     "Pipes": [ ]
}  

For more information about the Kinesis Agent for Windows source, pipe, and sink concepts, see Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows Concepts.

The following example is a complete appsettings.json configuration file that configures Kinesis Agent for Windows to stream Windows application log events to Firehose.

{
  "Sources": [
    {
      "LogName": "Application",
      "Id": "ApplicationLog",
      "SourceType": "WindowsEventLogSource"
    }
  ],
  "Sinks": [
    {
      "StreamName": "ApplicationLogFirehoseStream",
      "Region": "us-west-2",
      "Id": "MyKinesisFirehoseSink",
      "SinkType": "KinesisFirehose"
    }
  ],
  "Pipes": [
    {
      "Id": "ApplicationLogTotestKinesisFirehoseSink",
      "SourceRef": "ApplicationLog",
      "SinkRef": "MyKinesisFirehoseSink"
    }
  ]
}  

For information about each kind of declaration, see the following sections:

Configuration Case Sensitivity

JSON-formatted files are typically case sensitive, and you should assume that all the keys and values in Kinesis Agent for Windows configuration files are also case sensitive. Some keys and values in the appsettings.json configuration file are not case sensitive; for example: