Fluentd has 7 types of plugins: Input, Parser, Filter, Output, Formatter, Storage 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_tail​

• ​in_forward​

• ​in_udp​

• ​in_tcp​

• ​in_unix​

• ​in_http​

• ​in_syslog​

• ​in_exec​

• ​in_dummy​

• ​in_windows_eventlog​

Other Input Plugins

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

• ​Fluentd plugins​

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