Named pipe input/output plugin for Fluentd.

Input Plugin

Configuration

<source>
  type named_pipe
  path /path/to/file
  tag foo.bar
  format ltsv
</match>

Parameters

• path

  The file path of the named pipe

• tag

  The emit tag name

• format

  The input format such as regular expression, apache2, ltsv, etc. Same with in_tail plugin. See http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/in_tail

Output Plugin

Configuration

<match foo.bar.**>
  type named_pipe
  path /path/to/file
</match>

The output to the named pipe would be like:

foo.bar: {"foo":"bar"}

Parameters

• path

  The file path of the named pipe

• format

  The output format such as out_file, json, ltsv, single_value. Default is out_file.

ChangeLog

See CHANGELOG.md for details.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2014 Naotoshi Seo. See LICENSE for details.