Input Plugins

Fluentd has nine (9) types of plugins:

• Input

• Parser

• Filter

• Output

• Formatter

• Storage

• Service Discovery

• Buffer

• Metrics

This article gives an overview of the Input Plugin.

Overview

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

List of Input Plugins

• in_tail

• in_forward

• in_udp

• in_tcp

• in_unix

• in_http

• in_syslog

• in_exec

• in_sample

• in_windows_eventlog

Other Input Plugins

Refer to this list of available plugins to find out about other Input plugins:

• Fluentd plugins

If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please let us know. Fluentd is an open-source project under Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). All components are available under the Apache 2 License.