Counter
Counter is a plugin that counts how many records it's getting upon flush time. Plugin output is as follows:
[TIMESTAMP, NUMBER_OF_RECORDS_NOW] (total = RECORDS_SINCE_IT_STARTED)
Get 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 data with the following options:
fluent-bit -i cpu -o counter
Configuration file
In your main configuration file append the following:
pipeline:
inputs:
- name: cpu
tag: cpu
outputs:
- name: counter
match: '*'
Testing
When Fluent Bit is running, you will see the reports similar to this in the output interface:
...
1500484743,1 (total = 1)
1500484744,1 (total = 2)
1500484745,1 (total = 3)
1500484746,1 (total = 4)
1500484747,1 (total = 5)
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