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.

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.

• in_tail
• in_forward
• in_udp
• in_tcp
• in_unix
• in_http
• in_syslog
• in_exec
• in_sample
• in_windows_eventlog

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If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please let us know.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