Logging in Action

Appendix C. Plugins summary

We have looked at several types of plugins within the book but have not addressed all the available plugins available out of the box. This appendix addresses that. We have provided a summary of all the core plugins and some open source ones that warrant attention.

C.1 Formatter plugins

Plugin name	Summary	Fluentd core
csv	Covered in chapter 4. Basic comma-separated values, although the separator can be changed through the configuration attributes.	Y
hash	This translates the log event record to a representation that Ruby can handle in a hash format. It is possible to embed Ruby code fragments into some plugin configurations, hence its inclusion.	Y
json	Covered in chapter 4. Allows us ...