This gem provides a buffered HTTP output plugin for Fluentd which also optionally supports authentication.
- Fluetnd v0.14+
gem 'fluent-plugin-http_forward'<match **>
@type http_forward
url http://remote.example.com/%{tag}
verb post
content_type application/json # optional override
<authentication>
method basic
username user
password pass
</authentication>
<format>
@type json
</format>
<buffer tag> # if buffering, specify tag for in_http compat
chunk_limit_size 8388608 # optional, maximum chunk size, default 8MB
total_limit_size 536760912 # optional, maximum buffer size, default 512M
chunk_records_limit 10 # optional, maximum records per chunk
flush_interval 60 # optional, maximum time between flush
flush_thread_count 1 # optional, async threads to flush buffer
</buffer>
At present, only the JSON format has been tested. There's an optional msgpack format available that is as of yet untested because in_http does not currently support it.