Datadog output plugin for Fluentd 🔗︎
Overview 🔗︎
It mainly contains a proper JSON formatter and a socket handler that streams logs directly to Datadog - so no need to use a log shipper if you don’t wan’t to. More info at https://github.com/DataDog/fluent-plugin-datadog
Configuration 🔗︎
Output Config 🔗︎
api_key (*secret.Secret, required) {#output config-api_key} 🔗︎
This parameter is required in order to authenticate your fluent agent.
+docLink:“Secret,../secret/“
Default: nil
use_json (bool, optional) {#output config-use_json} 🔗︎
Event format, if true, the event is sent in json format. Othwerwise, in plain text.
Default: true
include_tag_key (bool, optional) {#output config-include_tag_key} 🔗︎
Automatically include the Fluentd tag in the record.
Default: false
tag_key (string, optional) {#output config-tag_key} 🔗︎
Where to store the Fluentd tag.
Default: “tag”
timestamp_key (string, optional) {#output config-timestamp_key} 🔗︎
Name of the attribute which will contain timestamp of the log event. If nil, timestamp attribute is not added.
Default: “@timestamp”
use_ssl (bool, optional) {#output config-use_ssl} 🔗︎
If true, the agent initializes a secure connection to Datadog. In clear TCP otherwise.
Default: true
no_ssl_validation (bool, optional) {#output config-no_ssl_validation} 🔗︎
Disable SSL validation (useful for proxy forwarding)
Default: false
ssl_port (string, optional) {#output config-ssl_port} 🔗︎
Port used to send logs over a SSL encrypted connection to Datadog. If use_http is disabled, use 10516 for the US region and 443 for the EU region.
Default: “443”
max_retries (string, optional) {#output config-max_retries} 🔗︎
The number of retries before the output plugin stops. Set to -1 for unlimited retries
Default: “-1”
max_backoff (string, optional) {#output config-max_backoff} 🔗︎
The maximum time waited between each retry in seconds
Default: “30”
use_http (bool, optional) {#output config-use_http} 🔗︎
Enable HTTP forwarding. If you disable it, make sure to change the port to 10514 or ssl_port to 10516
Default: true
use_compression (bool, optional) {#output config-use_compression} 🔗︎
Enable log compression for HTTP
Default: true
compression_level (string, optional) {#output config-compression_level} 🔗︎
Set the log compression level for HTTP (1 to 9, 9 being the best ratio)
Default: “6”
dd_source (string, optional) {#output config-dd_source} 🔗︎
This tells Datadog what integration it is
Default: nil
dd_sourcecategory (string, optional) {#output config-dd_sourcecategory} 🔗︎
Multiple value attribute. Can be used to refine the source attribute
Default: nil
dd_tags (string, optional) {#output config-dd_tags} 🔗︎
Custom tags with the following format “key1:value1, key2:value2”
Default: nil
dd_hostname (string, optional) {#output config-dd_hostname} 🔗︎
Used by Datadog to identify the host submitting the logs.
Default: “hostname -f”
service (string, optional) {#output config-service} 🔗︎
Used by Datadog to correlate between logs, traces and metrics.
Default: nil
port (string, optional) {#output config-port} 🔗︎
Proxy port when logs are not directly forwarded to Datadog and ssl is not used
Default: “80”
host (string, optional) {#output config-host} 🔗︎
Proxy endpoint when logs are not directly forwarded to Datadog
Default: “http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com”
buffer (*Buffer, optional) {#output config-buffer} 🔗︎
Default: -
