> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/1.1/output.md).

# Output Plugins

The *output plugins* defines where [Fluent Bit](http://fluentbit.io) should flush the information it gathers from the input. At the moment the available options are the following:

| name                                                 | title                                        | description                                                                                    |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [azure](/manual/1.1/output/azure.md)                 | Azure Log Analytics                          | Ingest records into Azure Log Analytics                                                        |
| [bigquery](/manual/1.1/output/bigquery.md)           | BigQuery                                     | Ingest records into Google BigQuery                                                            |
| [counter](/manual/1.1/output/counter.md)             | Count Records                                | Simple records counter.                                                                        |
| [es](/manual/1.1/output/elasticsearch.md)            | Elasticsearch                                | flush records to a Elasticsearch server.                                                       |
| [file](/manual/1.1/output/file.md)                   | File                                         | Flush records to a file.                                                                       |
| [flowcounter](/manual/1.1/output/flowcounter.md)     | FlowCounter                                  | Count records.                                                                                 |
| [forward](/manual/1.1/output/forward.md)             | Forward                                      | Fluentd forward protocol.                                                                      |
| [http](/manual/1.1/output/http.md)                   | HTTP                                         | Flush records to an HTTP end point.                                                            |
| [influxdb](/manual/1.1/output/influxdb.md)           | InfluxDB                                     | Flush records to InfluxDB time series database.                                                |
| [kafka](/manual/1.1/output/kafka.md)                 | Apache Kafka                                 | Flush records to Apache Kafka                                                                  |
| [kafka-rest](/manual/1.1/output/kafka-rest-proxy.md) | Kafka REST Proxy                             | Flush records to a Kafka REST Proxy server.                                                    |
| [stackdriver](/manual/1.1/output/stackdriver.md)     | Google Stackdriver Logging                   | Flush records to Google Stackdriver Logging service.                                           |
| [stdout](/manual/1.1/output/stdout.md)               | Standard Output                              | Flush records to the standard output.                                                          |
| [splunk](/manual/1.1/output/splunk.md)               | Splunk                                       | Flush records to a Splunk Enterprise service                                                   |
| [td](/manual/1.1/output/td.md)                       | [Treasure Data](http://www.treasuredata.com) | Flush records to the [Treasure Data](http://www.treasuredata.com) cloud service for analytics. |
| [nats](/manual/1.1/output/nats.md)                   | NATS                                         | flush records to a NATS server.                                                                |
| [null](/manual/1.1/output/null.md)                   | NULL                                         | throw away events.                                                                             |


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