TCP

Supported Platforms

Platform	Metrics	Logs	Traces
Linux		✓
Windows		✓
macOS		✓
Kubernetes Gateway		✓
OpenShift Gateway		✓

Configuration Table

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
listen_port*	int		Port to listen on.
listen_ip	string	"0.0.0.0"	IP Address to listen on.
log_type	string	tcp	Arbitrary for attribute 'log_type'. Useful for filtering between many tcp sources.
encoding	enum	utf-8	The encoding of the data being read. See the list of supported encodings.
parse_format	enum	none	Method to use when parsing. Valid values are none, json, and regex. When regex is selected, 'Regex Pattern' must be set.
regex_pattern	string		The regex pattern used when parsing log entries.
multiline_line_start_pattern	string		Regex pattern that matches the beginning of a log entry, for handling multiline logs.
multiline_line_end_pattern	string		Regex pattern that matches the end of a log entry, useful for terminating parsing of multiline logs.
parse_timestamp	bool	false	Whether to parse the timestamp from the log entry.
timestamp_field	string	timestamp	The field containing the timestamp in the log entry.
parse_timestamp_format	enum	ISO8601	The format of the timestamp in the log entry. Choose a common format, or specify a custom format. Options include "ISO8601", "RFC3339", "Epoch", and "Manual".
epoch_timestamp_format	enum	s	The layout of the epoch-based timestamp. Required when parse_timestamp_format is set to "Epoch".. Options include "s", "ms", "us", "ns", "s.ms", "s.us", "s.ns".
manual_timestamp_format	string	'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%f%z'	The strptime layout of the timestamp. Used when parse_timestamp_format is set to "Manual".
timezone	timezone	UTC	The timezone to use if the Timestamp Format doesn't include a timezone. Otherwise, the timezone in the Timestamp Format will be respected. NOTE: This is also required to parse timezone abbreviations, due to their ambiguity.
parse_severity	bool	false	Whether to parse severity from the log entry.
severity_field	string	severity	The field containing the severity in the log entry.
parse_to	string	body	The field that the log will be parsed to. Some exporters handle logs favorably when parsed to attributes over body and vice versa.
enable_tls	bool	false	Whether or not to use TLS.
tls_certificate_path	string		Path to the TLS cert to use for TLS-required connections.
tls_private_key_path	string		Path to the TLS key to use for TLS-required connections.
tls_min_version	enum	"1.2"	The minimum TLS version to support. 1.0 and 1.1 should not be considered secure. Valid values include: 1.3, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0.
max_log_size	string	"1Mib"	The maximum size of a log entry to read. A log entry will be truncated if it is larger than max_log_size. Protects against reading large amounts of data into memory.

*required field

Kubernetes

When using this source with Kubernetes or OpenShift, you must create a custom Service resource to route traffic to the collector. See the Kubernetes Service for more information.