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 🔗︎
| Variable Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| api_key | *secret.Secret | Yes | nil | This parameter is required in order to authenticate your fluent agent. +docLink:“Secret,../secret/“ |
| use_json | bool | No | true | Event format, if true, the event is sent in json format. Othwerwise, in plain text. |
| include_tag_key | bool | No | false | Automatically include the Fluentd tag in the record. |
| tag_key | string | No | “tag” | Where to store the Fluentd tag. |
| timestamp_key | string | No | “@timestamp” | Name of the attribute which will contain timestamp of the log event. If nil, timestamp attribute is not added. |
| use_ssl | bool | No | true | If true, the agent initializes a secure connection to Datadog. In clear TCP otherwise. |
| no_ssl_validation | bool | No | false | Disable SSL validation (useful for proxy forwarding) |
| ssl_port | string | No | “443” | 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. |
| max_retries | string | No | “-1” | The number of retries before the output plugin stops. Set to -1 for unlimited retries |
| max_backoff | string | No | “30” | The maximum time waited between each retry in seconds |
| use_http | bool | No | true | Enable HTTP forwarding. If you disable it, make sure to change the port to 10514 or ssl_port to 10516 |
| use_compression | bool | No | true | Enable log compression for HTTP |
| compression_level | string | No | “6” | Set the log compression level for HTTP (1 to 9, 9 being the best ratio) |
| dd_source | string | No | nil | This tells Datadog what integration it is |
| dd_sourcecategory | string | No | nil | Multiple value attribute. Can be used to refine the source attribute |
| dd_tags | string | No | nil | Custom tags with the following format “key1:value1, key2:value2” |
| dd_hostname | string | No | “hostname -f” | Used by Datadog to identify the host submitting the logs. |
| service | string | No | nil | Used by Datadog to correlate between logs, traces and metrics. |
| port | string | No | “80” | Proxy port when logs are not directly forwarded to Datadog and ssl is not used |
| host | string | No | “http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com” | Proxy endpoint when logs are not directly forwarded to Datadog |
| buffer | *Buffer | No | - | Buffer |
