Input Plugin Overview

Fluentd has 6 types of plugins: Input, Parser, Filter, Output, Formatter and Buffer. This article gives an overview of Filter Plugin.

Overview

Input plugins extend Fluentd to retrieve and pull event logs from external sources. An input plugin typically creates a thread socket and a listen socket. It can also be written to periodically pull data from data sources.

List of Input Plugins

• in_forward
• in_http
• in_tail
• in_exec
• in_syslog
• in_scribe

Other Input Plugins

Please refer to this list of available plugins to find out about other Input plugins.

• Fluentd plugins