FlowCounter

FlowCounter is the protocol to count records. The flowcounter output plugin allows to count up records and its size.

Configuration Parameters

The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

Key	Description	Default
Unit	The unit of duration. (second/minute/hour/day)	minute
Workers	The number of workers to perform flush operations for this output.	0

Getting Started

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 count up a data with the following options:

fluent-bit -i cpu -o flowcounter

Configuration File

In your main configuration file append the following:

fluent-bit.yaml

pipeline:
  inputs:
    - name: cpu
      tag: cpu
          
  outputs:
    - name: flowcounter
      match: '*'
      unit: second

fluent-bit.conf

[INPUT]
  Name cpu
  Tag  cpu

[OUTPUT]
  Name  flowcounter
  Match *
  Unit second

Testing

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

...
[out_flowcounter] cpu.0:[1482458540, {"counts":60, "bytes":7560, "counts/minute":1, "bytes/minute":126 }]
...