Plugin Helper API

Fluentd provides plugin helpers to encapsulate and make commonly implemented features available such as timer, threading, formatting, parsing, ensuring configuration syntax's backward compatibility, etc.

How To Use

To use plugin helpers, call helpers(*snake_case_symbols) method to make them available.

Example:

helpers :timer, :storage, :compat_parameters

It will include Timer, Storage. and CompatParameters plugin helpers.

Built-in Plugin Helpers

• child_process

• compat_parameters

• event_emitter

• event_loop

• extract

• formatter

• inject

• parser

• record_accessor

• server

• socket

• storage

• thread

• timer

• http_server

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