Fluentd has eight (8) types of plugins:
​Input​
​Parser​
​Filter​
​Output​
​Formatter​
​Storage​
​Service Discovery​
​Buffer​
This article gives an overview of the Input Plugin.
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.
​in_tail
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​in_forward
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​in_udp
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​in_tcp
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​in_unix
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​in_http
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​in_syslog
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​in_exec
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​in_sample
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​in_windows_eventlog
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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If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please let us know.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.