The tcp output plugin allows to send records to a remote TCP server. The payload can be formatted in different ways as required.
Key | Description | default |
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The following parameters are available to configure a secure channel connection through TLS:
Key | Description | Default |
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We have specified to gather CPU usage metrics and send them in JSON lines mode to a remote end-point using netcat service.
Run the following in a separate terminal, netcat
will start listening for messages on TCP port 5170. Once it connects to Fluent Bit ou should see the output as above in JSON format:
Repeat the JSON approach but using the msgpack
output format.
We could send this to stdout but as it is a serialized format you would end up with strange output. This should really be handled by a msgpack receiver to unpack as per the details in the developer documentation here. As an example we use the Python msgpack library to deal with it:
Host
Target host where Fluent-Bit or Fluentd are listening for Forward messages.
127.0.0.1
Port
TCP Port of the target service.
5170
Format
Specify the data format to be printed. Supported formats are msgpack json, json_lines and json_stream.
msgpack
json_date_key
Specify the name of the time key in the output record. To disable the time key just set the value to false
.
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
Workers
Enables dedicated thread(s) for this output. Default value is set since version 1.8.13. For previous versions is 0.
2
tls
Enable or disable TLS support
Off
tls.verify
Force certificate validation
On
tls.debug
Set TLS debug verbosity level. It accept the following values: 0 (No debug), 1 (Error), 2 (State change), 3 (Informational) and 4 Verbose
1
tls.ca_file
Absolute path to CA certificate file
tls.crt_file
Absolute path to Certificate file.
tls.key_file
Absolute path to private Key file.
tls.key_passwd
Optional password for tls.key_file file.