# Inputs

- [Collectd](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/collectd.md)
- [CPU Log Based Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/cpu-metrics.md)
- [Disk I/O Log Based Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/disk-io-metrics.md)
- [Docker Events](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/docker-events.md)
- [Docker Log Based Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/docker-metrics.md): The docker input plugin allows you to collect Docker container metrics such as memory usage and CPU consumption.
- [Dummy](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/dummy.md)
- [Elasticsearch](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/elasticsearch.md)
- [Exec](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/exec.md)
- [Exec Wasi](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/exec-wasi.md)
- [Ebpf](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/ebpf.md)
- [Fluent Bit Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/fluentbit-metrics.md): A plugin to collect Fluent Bit's own metrics
- [Forward](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/forward.md)
- [Head](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/head.md)
- [Health](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/health.md)
- [HTTP](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/http.md): The HTTP input plugin allows you to send custom records to an HTTP endpoint.
- [Kafka](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/kafka.md)
- [Kernel Logs](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/kernel-logs.md)
- [Kubernetes Events](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/kubernetes-events.md): Collects Kubernetes Events
- [Memory Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/memory-metrics.md)
- [MQTT](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/mqtt.md)
- [Network I/O Log Based Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/network-io-metrics.md)
- [NGINX Exporter Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/nginx.md)
- [Node Exporter Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/node-exporter-metrics.md): A plugin based on Prometheus Node Exporter to collect system / host level metrics
- [OpenTelemetry](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/opentelemetry.md): An input plugin to ingest OTLP Logs, Metrics, and Traces
- [Podman Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/podman-metrics.md): The Podman Metrics input plugin allows you to collect metrics from podman containers, so they can be exposed later as, for example, Prometheus counters and gauges.
- [Process Exporter Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/process-exporter-metrics.md): A plugin based on Process Exporter to collect process level of metrics of system metrics
- [Process Log Based Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/process.md)
- [Prometheus Remote Write](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/prometheus-remote-write.md): An input plugin to ingest payloads of Prometheus remote write
- [Prometheus Scrape Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/prometheus-scrape-metrics.md)
- [Random](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/random.md)
- [Serial Interface](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/serial-interface.md)
- [Splunk](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/splunk.md)
- [Standard Input](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/standard-input.md)
- [StatsD](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/statsd.md)
- [Syslog](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/syslog.md)
- [Systemd](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/systemd.md)
- [Tail](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/tail.md)
- [TCP](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/tcp.md)
- [Thermal](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/thermal.md)
- [UDP](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/udp.md)
- [Windows Event Log](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/windows-event-log.md)
- [Windows Event Log (winevtlog)](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/windows-event-log-winevtlog.md)
- [Windows Exporter Metrics](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/3.2/pipeline/inputs/windows-exporter-metrics.md): A plugin based on Prometheus Windows Exporter to collect system / host level metrics


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