Understanding New Function System and VRL vs Lua
TLDR Joe asked about the new function system and its Lua support. Prabhat explained VRL, while also confirming Lua support will continue. Recommended VRL for Joe's use case.
Prabhat
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:02:34 UTCActually new functions are based on VRL -
Joe
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:03:14 UTCOh I see, will lua support be removed in a future update? Should I look at migrating to VRL?
Prabhat
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:03:39 UTCNo, Lua support will not be removed.
Prabhat
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:03:54 UTCFor most of the users VRL will be a much easier option though
Prabhat
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:04:11 UTCLua is way more powerful than VRL.
Prabhat
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:04:39 UTCHowever there are security consideration when running untrusted lua code due to which we are not enabling it by default
Prabhat
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:05:00 UTCWe will be writing docs about enabling it and people should enable it only in trusted environments
Prabhat
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:06:33 UTCWhat are you using functions for?
Joe
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:07:21 UTCCurrently just using lua string matches to extract info from the "message" and put it in separate fields
Prabhat
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:07:51 UTCVRL is much easier for this use case. Give it a shot.
Joe
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:08:02 UTCNice, I'll try it :slightly_smiling_face:
Joe
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:08:14 UTCThanks for the help
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Joe
Sun, 23 Apr 2023 10:53:38 UTCHow does the new function system work? when I paste in my old function which I deleted before the upgrade, it cuts it after saving so that only the last 10 lines are saved