The websocket output plugin allows to flush your records into a WebSocket endpoint. For now the functionality is pretty basic and it issues a HTTP GET request to do the handshake, and then use TCP connections to send the data records in either JSON or MessagePack (or JSON) format.
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In order to insert records into a HTTP server, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:
The websocket plugin, can read the parameters from the command line in two ways, through the -p argument (property) or setting them directly through the service URI. The URI format is the following:
Using the format specified, you could start Fluent Bit through:
In your main configuration file, append the following Input & Output sections:
Websocket plugin is working with tcp keepalive mode, please refer to networking section for details. Since websocket is a stateful plugin, it will decide when to send out handshake to server side, for example when plugin just begins to work or after connection with server has been dropped. In general, the interval to init a new websocket handshake would be less than the keepalive interval. With that stratgy, it could detect and resume websocket connetions.
Once Fluent Bit is running, you can send some messages using the netcat:
In Fluent Bit we should see the following output:
From the output of fluent-bit log, we see that once data has been ingested into fluent bit, plugin would perform handshake. After a while, no data or traffic is undergoing, tcp connection would been abort. And then another piece of data arrived, a retry for websocket plugin has been triggered, with another handshake and data flush.
There is another scenario, once websocket server flaps in a short time, which means it goes down and up in a short time, fluent-bit would resume tcp connection immediately. But in that case, websocket output plugin is a malfunction state, it needs to restart fluent-bit to get back to work.
Host
IP address or hostname of the target WebScoket Server
127.0.0.1
Port
TCP port of the target WebScoket Server
80
URI
Specify an optional HTTP URI for the target websocket server, e.g: /something
/
Format
Specify the data format to be used in the HTTP request body, by default it uses msgpack. Other supported formats are json, json_stream and json_lines and gelf.
msgpack
json_date_key
Specify the name of the date field in output
date
json_date_format
Specify the format of the date. Supported formats are double, epoch, iso8601 (eg: 2018-05-30T09:39:52.000681Z) and java_sql_timestamp (eg: 2018-05-30 09:39:52.000681)
double