Term	Description
Agent	A configured instance of Fluentd and/or Fluent Bit. The most granular element in the system
Environment	Where an agent can be deployed at (E.g. Windows, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes)
Pipeline	The same as an agent, however associated to an aggregator
Replicas	The number of instances allocated for a pipeline
Aggregator	A managed group of pipelines
Configuration	A description of what the pipeline or agent will do
Secrets	Referenced portions of a configuration that are not in plain text (E.g. password, tokens)
Certificate	An element referenced from within a configuration that is used for authentication
Endpoints	A port mapping created in an aggregator to allow applications to talk to a pipeline
Revision	A change in the configuration for the pipeline or agent
Plugin	A unit within the configuration that speicfied what action the agent performs (E.g. input, filter, output)
Throughput (Events)	Events per second, a metric to measure the performance of a plugin or the system overall
Data Processed (Bytes)	Human readable format of bytes (MB/ GB/ TB) per second, a metric to measure the performance of a plugin or the system overall
Project	A Calyptia grouping where a user can connect agents or aggregators

Types of Plugins

Term	Description
Filters	Configuration element that allows for modification, reduction, enrichment, or change of data stream
Input	Configuration element that allows for receiving network traffic or other streams of data (E.g. Fluent Bit / Fluentd / Syslog / TCP / HTTP, etc.)
Output	Configuration element that allows for sending data to a particular destination (E.g. Kafka, Splunk, Elasticsearch, etc.)