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Fluent Forward receiver 🔗

The Fluent Forward receiver allows the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to collect events using the bundled Fluentd application. The supported pipeline type is logs. See Configure pipelines for more information.

The receiver accepts data formatted as Fluent Forward events through a TCP connection. All three Fluent event types, message, forward, and packed forward, are supported, including compressed packed forward.

Note

Fluentd is bundled in the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Get started 🔗

By default, the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector includes the Fluent Forward receiver in the logs pipeline when deploying in agent mode. See Collector deployment modes for more information.

The default configuration of the fluentforward receiver in the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector is the following:

receivers:
  fluentforward:
    endpoint: 127.0.0.1:8006

service:
  pipelines:
    logs:
      receivers: [fluentforward, otlp]
      processors:
      - memory_limiter
      - batch
      - resourcedetection

For more information on how to install Fluentd when manually installing the Collector, see:

Settings 🔗

The following table shows the configuration options for the Fluent Forward receiver:

Troubleshooting 🔗

For troubleshooting Fluentd, see: