Health

Health input plugin allows you to check how healthy a TCP server is. It does the check by issuing a TCP connection every a certain interval of time.

Configuration Parameters

The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

Key
Description

Host

Name of the target host or IP address to check.

Port

TCP port where to perform the connection check.

Interval_Sec

Interval in seconds between the service checks. Default value is 1.

Internal_Nsec

Specify a nanoseconds interval for service checks, it works in conjunction with the Interval_Sec configuration key. Default value is 0.

Alert

If enabled, it will only generate messages if the target TCP service is down. By default this option is disabled.

Add_Host

If enabled, hostname is appended to each records. Default value is false.

Add_Port

If enabled, port number is appended to each records. Default value is false.

Threaded

Indicates whether to run this input in its own thread. Default: false.

Getting Started

In order to start performing the checks, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:

Command Line

From the command line you can let Fluent Bit generate the checks with the following options:

$ fluent-bit -i health -p host=127.0.0.1 -p port=80 -o stdout

Configuration File

In your main configuration file append the following Input & Output sections:

Testing

Once Fluent Bit is running, you will see some random values in the output interface similar to this:

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