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Fluent Forward Receiver

OpenTelemetry Collector receiver · contrib distribution

This receiver runs a TCP server that accepts events via the Fluent Forward protocol.

Component ID: contrib-fluentforwardreceiver
Name: fluentforwardreceiver
Type: receiver
Distribution: contrib
Repository: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Stability

Level	Signals
beta	logs

Internal telemetry

Metric	Type	Value type	Unit	Stability	Enabled	Attributes	Description
`fluent_closed_connections`	sum	int	1	development	yes		Number of connections closed to the fluentforward receiver
`fluent_events_parsed`	sum	int	1	development	yes		Number of Fluent events parsed successfully
`fluent_opened_connections`	sum	int	1	development	yes		Number of connections opened to the fluentforward receiver
`fluent_parse_failures`	sum	int	1	development	yes		Number of times Fluent messages failed to be decoded
`fluent_records_generated`	sum	int	1	development	yes		Number of log records generated from Fluent forward input

Data

JSON (latest): /data/collector/components/contrib-fluentforwardreceiver/latest.json
JSON (pinned): /data/collector/components/contrib-fluentforwardreceiver/contrib-fluentforwardreceiver-634cf7fac105.json
Explore: /collector/components/contrib/fluentforwardreceiver