fluent-to-ES.conf

# Modified from: https://blog.bitsrc.io/setting-up-a-logging-infrastructure-in-nodejs-ec34898e677e
#
# Recieve events from 24224/tcp
<source>
  @type forward
  port 24224
  bind 0.0.0.0
</source>

# Fluentd will decide what to do here if the event is matched
# In our case, we want all the data to be matched hence **
<match **>
# We want all the data to be copied to elasticsearch using inbuilt
# copy output plugin https://docs.fluentd.org/output/copy
  @type copy
  <store>
  # We want to store our data to elastic search using out_elasticsearch plugin
  # https://docs.fluentd.org/output/elasticsearch. See Dockerfile for installation
    @type elasticsearch
    time_key timestamp_ms
    host 0.0.0.0
    port 9200
    # Use conventional index name format (logstash-%Y.%m.%d)
    logstash_format true
    # We will use this when kibana reads logs from ES
    logstash_prefix fluentd
    logstash_dateformat %Y-%m-%d
    flush_interval 1s
    reload_connections false
    reconnect_on_error true
    reload_on_failure true
  </store>
</match>