# Sending Data to Baselime

Baselime supports a variety of data sources, including logs, metrics, traces, and events. With just a few steps, you can start sending your data to Baselime and gain valuable insights into the performance and reliability of your serverless applications.

You can send your telemetry data to Baselime with either of:

# Validation

Baselime has a size limit for events of 128kb. This size limit helps ensure that the ingestion process is efficient and that the data stored in Baselime is manageable and fast to query. If an event exceeds this 128kb size limit, it will not be ingested into Baselime.

# Sending Semi-Structured Logs to Baselime

Semi-structured logs are logs that are not in the strict JSON format, but still contain structured data that can be extracted.These logs contain a mixture of structured and unstructured data, making them difficult to parse and analyze. Fortunately, Baselime has built-in mechanisms to parse and extract relevant data from semi-structured logs.

Baselime will automatically detect log events that contain JSON data, but are prepended or appended by a generic string.

The generic string will be wrapped in a message attribute, and the JSON data will be wrapped in a data attribute. This enables you to easily extract and analyze relevant data from semi-structured logs.

# Examples

Here are examples of automatic semi-structured logs detection.

Raw event

Parsed data

Events: { "key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", "key3": "value3" }

{
  "message": "Events",
  "data": {
    "key1": "value1",
    "key2": "value2",
    "key3": "value3"
  }
}

Raw event

Parsed data

User Data {"user":{"id":"7467c534-3759-11ed-a261-0242ac120002","email":"john@jimbies.com","roles":["guest","owner"],"apiKey":"4ec86d09-d056-4a9b-af07-3a8b68bcb4cc","profile":{"dob":"1982-01-12","name":"John Doe","address":"46 Amherst Street, Boling, Virginia","company":"Jimbies","location":{"lat":-50.341738,"long":-26.114914}},"username":"jjred","createdAt":"2011-03-11T11:45:23.942Z","updatedAt":"2011-03-12T11:45:23.942Z"}}'

{
  "message": "User Data",
  "data": {
    "user": {
      "id": "7467c534-3759-11ed-a261-0242ac120002",
      "email": "john@jimbies.com",
      "roles": [
        "guest",
        "owner"
      ],
      "apiKey": "4ec86d09-d056-4a9b-af07-3a8b68bcb4cc",
      "profile": {
        "dob": "1982-01-12",
        "name": "John Doe",
        "address": "46 Amherst Street, Boling, Virginia",
        "company": "Jimbies",
        "location": {
          "lat": -50.341738,
          "long": -26.114914
        }
      },
      "username": "jjred",
      "createdAt": "2011-03-11T11:45:23.942Z",
      "updatedAt": "2011-03-12T11:45:23.942Z"
    }
  }
}

Raw event

Parsed data

localdomain {"metadata":{"name":"Optimus","local_time_zone":"GMT+1","created_at":1631689974}} sudo[14170]

{
  "message": "localdomain - sudo[14170]",
  "data": {
    "metadata": {
      "name": "Optimus",
      "local_time_zone": "GMT+1",
      "created_at": 1631689974
    }
  }
}