Sinks reference

Deliver your observability data to a variety of destinations

Available sinks

Send events to AMQP 0.9.1 compatible brokers like RabbitMQ

Deliver events to AppSignal

AWS Cloudwatch logs sink

aws_cloudwatch_logs

Publish log events to AWS Cloudwatch Logs

AWS Cloudwatch metrics sink

aws_cloudwatch_metrics

Publish metric events to AWS Cloudwatch Metrics

AWS Kinesis Data Firehose logs sink

aws_kinesis_firehose

Publish logs to AWS Kinesis Data Firehose topics

AWS Kinesis Streams logs sink

aws_kinesis_streams

Publish logs to AWS Kinesis Streams topics

Store observability events in the AWS S3 object storage system

Publish observability events to Simple Notification Service topics

Publish observability events to Simple Queue Service topics

Deliver log events to Axiom

Azure Blob Storage sink

Store your observability data in Azure Blob Storage

Azure Logs Ingestion sink

azure_logs_ingestion

Publish log events to the Azure Monitor Log Ingestion API, so they can be used in Log Analytics or Sentinel.

Azure Monitor Logs sink

azure_monitor_logs

Publish log events to the Azure Monitor Logs service

Send observability events nowhere, which can be useful for debugging purposes

ClickHouse sink

Deliver log data to the ClickHouse database

Display observability events in the console, which can be useful for debugging purposes

Deliver log data to the Databend database

Databricks Zerobus sink

databricks_zerobus

Stream observability data to Databricks Unity Catalog via Zerobus

Datadog events sink

Publish observability events to the Datadog Events API

Datadog logs sink

Publish log events to Datadog

Datadog metrics sink

datadog_metrics

Publish metric events to Datadog

Datadog traces sink

Publish traces to Datadog

Deliver log data to the Apache Doris database

Elasticsearch sink

Index observability events in Elasticsearch

Output observability events into files

GCP Chronicle Unstructured sink

gcp_chronicle_unstructured

Store unstructured log events in Google Chronicle

GCP Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver) sink

gcp_stackdriver_metrics

Deliver metrics to GCP’s Cloud Monitoring system

GCP Cloud Storage sink

gcp_cloud_storage

Store observability events in GCP Cloud Storage

GCP Stackdriver sink

gcp_stackdriver_logs

Deliver logs to GCP’s Cloud Operations suite

GCP PubSub sink

Publish observability events to GCP’s PubSub messaging system

GreptimeDB Logs sink

greptimedb_logs

Writes logs to GreptimeDB

GreptimeDB Metrics sink

greptimedb_metrics

Writes metrics to GreptimeDB

Deliver log events to Honeycomb

Deliver observability data to an HTTP server

Humio logs sink

Deliver log event data to Humio

Humio metrics sink

Deliver metric event data to Humio

InfluxDB logs sink

Deliver log event data to InfluxDB

InfluxDB metrics sink

influxdb_metrics

Deliver metric event data to InfluxDB

Publish observability data to Apache Kafka topics

Deliver log events to Keep

Deliver log event data to the Loki aggregation system

Mezmo (formerly LogDNA) sink

Deliver log event data to Mezmo

Deliver observability event data to an MQTT broker

Publish observability data to subjects on the NATS messaging system

Deliver events to New Relic

OpenTelemetry sink

Send OTLP data through HTTP.

Papertrail sink

Deliver log events to Papertrail from SolarWinds

Deliver observability data to the PostgreSQL database

Prometheus Exporter sink

prometheus_exporter

Output metric events to a Prometheus exporter running on the host

Prometheus remote write sink

prometheus_remote_write

Deliver metric data to a Prometheus remote write endpoint

Publish observability events to Apache Pulsar topics

Publish observability data to Redis.

Sematext logs sink

Publish log events to Sematext

Sematext metrics sink

sematext_metrics

Publish metric events to Sematext

Deliver logs to a remote socket endpoint

Splunk HEC logs sink

splunk_hec_logs

Deliver log data to Splunk’s HTTP Event Collector

Splunk HEC metrics sink

splunk_hec_metrics

Deliver metric data to Splunk’s HTTP Event Collector

Deliver metric data to a StatsD aggregator

Relay observability data to another Vector instance

Output observability events into WebHDFS

Deliver observability event data to a websocket listener

WebSocket Server sink

websocket_server

Deliver observability event data to websocket clients

Log events Metric events

Pipeline model Runtime model Buffering model Concurrency model Adaptive Concurrency Guarantees End-to-end Acknowledgements

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