Fluentd has 8 types of plugins: Input, Parser, Filter, Output, Formatter, Storage, Service Discovery 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​

If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please let us know.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