Console Sink

The Vector console sink sends logs and metrics to STDOUT.

Configuration

• Common
• Advanced

• vector.toml
• vector.yaml
• vector.json

[sinks.my_sink_id]
  # General
  type = "console" # required
  inputs = ["my-source-or-transform-id"] # required
  target = "stdout" # optional, default

  # Encoding
  encoding.codec = "json" # required

• commonrequiredtable

  encoding

  Configures the encoding specific sink behavior.

  • commonrequiredstring

    codec

    The encoding codec used to serialize the events before outputting.

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• enumcommonoptionalstring

  target

  The standard stream to write to.

  • Default: "stdout"
  • Enum, must be one of: "stdout" "stderr"
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Telemetry

This component provides the following metrics that can be retrieved through the internal_metrics source. See the metrics section in the monitoring page for more info.

• counter

  processing_errors_total

  The total number of processing errors encountered by this component. This metric includes the following tags:

  • component_kind - The Vector component kind.

  • component_name - The Vector component ID.

  • component_type - The Vector component type.

  • error_type - The type of the error

  • instance - The Vector instance identified by host and port.

  • job - The name of the job producing Vector metrics.

• counter

  processed_events_total

  The total number of events processed by this component. This metric includes the following tags:

  • component_kind - The Vector component kind.

  • component_name - The Vector component ID.

  • component_type - The Vector component type.

  • file - The file that produced the error

  • instance - The Vector instance identified by host and port.

  • job - The name of the job producing Vector metrics.

• counter

  processed_bytes_total

  The total number of bytes processed by the component. This metric includes the following tags:

  • component_kind - The Vector component kind.

  • component_name - The Vector component ID.

  • component_type - The Vector component type.

  • instance - The Vector instance identified by host and port.

  • job - The name of the job producing Vector metrics.

How It Works