UDP Output

New in version 0.7.

Plugin Name: UdpOutput

Output plugin that delivers Heka message data to a specified UDP or Unix datagram socket location.

Config:

• net (string, optional):

  Network type to use for communication. Must be one of “udp”, “udp4”, “udp6”, or “unixgram”. “unixgram” option only available on systems that support Unix datagram sockets. Defaults to “udp”.

• address (string):

  Address to which we will be sending the data. Must be IP:port for net types of “udp”, “udp4”, or “udp6”. Must be a path to a Unix datagram socket file for net type “unixgram”.

• local_address (string, optional):

  Local address to use on the datagram packets being generated. Must be IP:port for net types of “udp”, “udp4”, or “udp6”. Must be a path to a Unix datagram socket file for net type “unixgram”.

• encoder (string):

  Name of registered encoder plugin that will extract and/or serialized data from the Heka message.

Example:

[PayloadEncoder]

[UdpOutput]
address = "myserver.example.com:34567"
encoder = "PayloadEncoder"