Fluentd has nine (9) types of plugins:

This article gives an overview of the Input Plugin.

Input plugins extend Fluentd to retrieve and pull event logs from the external sources. An input plugin typically creates a thread, socket, and a listening socket. It can also be written to periodically pull data from the data sources.

Refer to this list of available plugins to find out about other Input plugins:

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