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If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please let us know.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.