Fluentd has 8 types of plugins: Input, Parser, Filter, Output, Formatter, Storage, Service Discovery and Buffer. This article gives an overview of Storage Plugin.

Overview

Sometimes, the plugin states for an output, a filter, and an input plugin should save into in-memory or storage or other key-value stores. Fluentd has a pluggable system called Storage that lets the plugin internal states extract to in-memory or storage or other key-value stores and re-use stored key-value pair value.

How To Use

For an input, an output, and filter plugin that supports Storage, the <storage> directive can be used to store key-value pair into the key-vaule store such as json file, MongoDB, Redis and so on.

Here is an example with in_dummy:

<source>
  @type dummy
  tag docs.fluentd.storage
  <storage awesome_path>
    @type my_custom_storage
  </storage>
</source>

List of Built-in Storage

• ​local​

List of Core Plugins with Storage support

• ​in_dummy​

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