Named Pipe Receiver

Status
Stability	alpha: logs
Unsupported Platforms	windows, darwin
Distributions	contrib
Issues
Code Owners	@sinkingpoint, @djaglowski

This receiver supports opening a Unix Named Pipe (aka FIFO), and reading logs from it.

Prerequisites

Named pipes are only supported on Unix operating systems.

Configuration

The following settings are required:

• path: The path to open the named pipe at.

The following settings are optional:

• mode: The mode bits to set on the opened pipe (default: 666)

Example Configuration

receivers:
  namedpipe:
    path: /tmp/pipe
    mode: 0600