Makes an extra copy of the event, thus the next step in the pipeline will see both events. This is mostly useful in the parser pipeline.

For On-Prem deployments only: If you are using this function to copy an event to another repository, the ALLOW_CHANGE_REPO_ON_EVENTS environment variable must be set to true.

ParameterTypeRequiredDefault ValueDescription
type[a]stringrequired  The value for #type for the copy.

[a] The argument name type can be omitted.

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copyEvent() Examples

We store the event both with the timestamp from the event, but also as a separate stream based on arrival time. This assumes the event has a type that is not arrivaltime.

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copyEvent("arrivaltime")
| case { #type=arrivaltime
| @timestamp:=now() ; *
| parseTimestamp(field=ts) }

An example of copying event from one repo to another, which can only be used in a parser, for example Ingesting Data to Multiple Repositories

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copyEvent("cloned_event")
| case { #type="cloned_event"
| repo := "target-repo-name"; * }