Input Plugins

Fluentd has 6 types of plugins: Input, Parser, Filter, Output, Formatter and Buffer. This article gives an overview of Input Plugin.

Overview

Input plugins extend Fluentd to retrieve and pull event logs from external sources. An input plugin typically creates a thread socket and a listen socket. It can also be written to periodically pull data from data sources.

List of Input Plugins

• in_forward

• in_unix

• in_http

• in_tail

• in_exec

• in_syslog

Other Input Plugins

Please refer to this list of available plugins to find out about other Input plugins.

• Fluentd plugins

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