HTTP - Fluent Bit

Description

The http output plugin allows to flush your records into a HTTP endpoint. For now the functionality is pretty basic and it issues a POST request with the data records in MessagePack (or JSON) format. See fluent bit page for more information.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Type	Default
allow_duplicated_headers	Specify if duplicated headers are allowed. If a duplicated header is found, the latest key/value set is preserved.	bool	true
format	Specify the data format to be used in the HTTP request body, by default it uses msgpack. Other supported formats are json, json_stream and json_lines and gelf.	str	"json"
header	Add a HTTP header key/value pair. Multiple headers can be set.	str	N/A
headers_key	Specify the key to use as the headers of the request (must prefix with "$"). The key must contain a map, which will have the contents merged on the request headers. This can be used for many purposes, such as specifying the content-type of the data contained in body_key.	str	N/A
header_tag	Specify an optional HTTP header field for the original message tag.	str	N/A
http_user	Basic Auth Username.	str	N/A
http_passwd	Basic Auth Password. Requires HTTP_User to be set.	str	N/A
json_date_format	Specify the format of the date. Supported formats are double, epoch, iso8601 (eg: 2018-05-30T09:39:52.000681Z) and java_sql_timestamp (eg: 2018-05-30 09:39:52.000681).	str	"double"
json_date_key	Specify the name of the time key in the output record. To disable the time key just set the value to false.	str	"date"
host	IP address or hostname of the target HTTP Server.	str	"127.0.0.1"
log_response_payload	Specify if the response paylod should be logged or not.	str	true
port	TCP port of the target HTTP Server	str	"80"
uri	Specify an optional HTTP URI for the target web server, e.g: /something.	str	"/"

Node configuration

...
flb_http:
  plugin: "dc_destinations/FlbHTTP"
  inputs: ["/dc/measurement/data"]
  host: "127.0.0.1"
  port: 80
  uri: "/"
  format: "json"
...