Forward

Forward is the protocol used by Calyptia Calyptia Fluent Bit and Fluentd to route messages between peers. This plugin implements the input service to listen for Forward messages.

Configuration Parameters

The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

Key
Description
Default

Listen

Listener network interface.

0.0.0.0

Port

TCP port to listen for incoming connections.

24224

Unix_Path

Specify the path to unix socket to receive a Forward message. If set, Listen and Port are ignored.

Unix_Perm

Set the permission of the unix socket file. If Unix_Path is not set, this parameter is ignored.

Buffer_Max_Size

6144000

Buffer_Chunk_Size

1024000

Tag_Prefix

Prefix incoming tag with the defined value.

Getting Started

In order to receive Forward messages, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file as shown in the following examples.

Command Line

From the command line you can let Calyptia Fluent Bit listen for Forward messages with the following options:

$ calyptia-fluent-bit -i forward -o stdout

By default the service will listen an all interfaces (0.0.0.0) through TCP port 24224, optionally you can change this directly, e.g:

$ calyptia-fluent-bit -i forward -p listen="192.168.3.2" -p port=9090 -o stdout

In the example the Forward messages will only arrive through network interface under 192.168.3.2 address and TCP Port 9090.

Configuration File

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

[INPUT]
    Name              forward
    Listen            0.0.0.0
    Port              24224
    Buffer_Chunk_Size 1M
    Buffer_Max_Size   6M

[OUTPUT]
    Name   stdout
    Match  *

Testing

Once Calyptia Fluent Bit is running, you can send some messages using the fluent-cat tool (this tool is provided by Fluentd:

$ echo '{"key 1": 123456789, "key 2": "abcdefg"}' | fluent-cat my_tag

In Calyptia Calyptia Fluent Bit we should see the following output:

$ bin/calyptia-fluent-bit -i forward -o stdout
Fluent-Bit v0.9.0
Copyright (C) Treasure Data

[2016/10/07 21:49:40] [ info] [engine] started
[2016/10/07 21:49:40] [ info] [in_fw] binding 0.0.0.0:24224
[0] my_tag: [1475898594, {"key 1"=>123456789, "key 2"=>"abcdefg"}]

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