fluent-plugin-keep-forward

testing ruby: 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0; fluentd: 0.10.x

About

This is an extension of fluentd out_forward plugin to keep fowarding log data to the same node (as long as possible).

Parameters

Basically same with out_forward plugin. See http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/out_forward

Following parameters are additionally available:

• keepalive (bool)

  Keepalive connection. Default is false.

• keepalive_time (time)

  Keepalive expired time. Default is nil (which means to keep connection as long as possible).

• heartbeat_type

  The transport protocol to use for heartbeats. The default is “udp”, but you can select “tcp” as well. Furthermore, in keep_forward, you can also select "none" to disable heartbeat.

• keepforward

  one for keep forwarding all data to the one node. thread for keep forwarding to the different node in each thread. tag for keep forwarding data with the same tag to the same node. Default is one.

• prefer_recover (bool)

  Switch connection to a recovered node from standby nodes or less weighted nodes. Default is true.

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

ChangeLog

See CHANGELOG.md for details.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2013 Naotoshi Seo. See LICENSE for details.