fluent-plugin-tcp_socket_client

fluent-plugin-tcp_socket_client , a plugin for Fluentd

A fluentd input plugin for read TCP socket.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'fluent-plugin-tcp_socket_client'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install fluent-plugin-tcp_socket_client --no-document

Requirements

• Ruby 2.1 or later
• fluentd v0.12 or later

Usage

Input plugin (@type 'tcp_socket_client')

Read events from TCP sockets.

<source>
  @type tcp_socket_client
  @log_level debug
  server localhost
  port 3000
  tag prueba
  interval 1s
  format text
</source>

Common parameters

interval

Interval for retry connect to socket.

interval 5s

server

Socket server name or IP address.

server localhost

port

Socket port.

port 3000

format

Default: json

Format of the message (json|text|ltsv)

format json

emit_messages

Default: 10

Batch size for emit messages.

emit_messages 10

Example

<system>
  workers 1
</system>
<source>
  @type tcp_socket_client
  server localhost
  port 3000
  tag prueba
  interval 1s
  format json
</source>
<match prueba>
  @type stdout
</match>

In another terminal run:

require 'socket'
puts "Starting the Server..................."
server = TCPServer.open(3000) # Server would listen on port 3000
loop{                         # Servers run forever
   client_connection = server.accept # Establish client connect connection
   client_connection.puts('{"key":"val"}')
   client_connection.close      # Disconnect from the client
}