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TCP OutputΒΆ

Plugin Name: TcpOutput

Output plugin that delivers Heka message data to a listening TCP connection. Can be used to deliver messages from a local running Heka agent to a remote Heka instance set up as an aggregator and/or router, or to any other arbitrary listening TCP server that knows how to process the encoded data.

Config:

  • address (string):

    An IP address:port to which we will send our output data.

  • use_tls (bool, optional):

    Specifies whether or not SSL/TLS encryption should be used for the TCP connections. Defaults to false.

New in version 0.5.

  • tls (TlsConfig, optional):

    A sub-section that specifies the settings to be used for any SSL/TLS encryption. This will only have any impact if use_tls is set to true. See Configuring TLS.

  • ticker_interval (uint, optional):

    Specifies how often, in seconds, the output queue files are rolled. Defaults to 300.

New in version 0.6.

  • local_address (string, optional):

    A local IP address to use as the source address for outgoing traffic to this destination. Cannot currently be combined with TLS connections.

  • encoder (string, optional):

    Specifies which of the registered encoders should be used for converting Heka messages to binary data that is sent out over the TCP connection. Defaults to the always available “ProtobufEncoder”.

  • use_framing (bool, optional):

    Specifies whether or not the encoded data sent out over the TCP connection should be delimited by Heka’s Stream Framing. Defaults to true if a ProtobufEncoder is used, false otherwise.

  • keep_alive (bool):

    Specifies whether or not TCP keepalive should be used for established TCP connections. Defaults to false.

  • keep_alive_period (int):

    Time duration in seconds that a TCP connection will be maintained before keepalive probes start being sent. Defaults to 7200 (i.e. 2 hours).

New in version 0.9.

  • queue_max_buffer_size (uint64):

    Defines maximum queue buffer size, in bytes. Defaults to 0, which means no max.

  • queue_full_action (string, optional):

    Specifies how Heka should behave when the queue reaches the specified maximum capacity. There are currently three possible actions:

    • shutdown: Shutdowns heka.

    • drop: Messages are dropped until queue is available again. Already queued

      messages are unaffected.

    • block: Blocks processing of messages, tries to push last message

      until its possible.

    Defaults to shutdown.

Example:

[aggregator_output]
type = "TcpOutput"
address = "heka-aggregator.mydomain.com:55"
local_address = "127.0.0.1"
message_matcher = "Type != 'logfile' && Type != 'heka.counter-output' && Type != 'heka.all-report'"