Blackhole Sink

The Vector blackhole sink sends logs

Configuration

• Common
• Advanced

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

[sinks.my_sink_id]
  type = "blackhole" # required
  inputs = ["my-source-or-transform-id", "prefix-*"] # required

• optionaluint

  print_amount

  The number of events that must be received in order to print a summary of activity.

  • Default: 1000
• optionaluint

  rate

  Rates the amount of events that the sink can consume per second.

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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

  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.

• counter

  events_in_total

  The total number of events accepted 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.

  • 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

  events_out_total

  The total number of events emitted 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.

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

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

How It Works

State

This component is stateless, meaning its behavior is consistent across each input.