Null

{% hint style="info" %} Supported event types: logs metrics {% endhint %}

The Null output plugin discards events.

Configuration parameters

This plugin supports the following parameters:

Key	Description	Default
`format`	Specify the data format. Supported formats: `msgpack`, `json`, `json_lines`, `json_stream`.	`msgpack`
`json_date_format`	Specify the format of the date. Supported formats: `double`, `epoch`, `epoch_ms`, `iso8601` (for example, `2018-05-30T09:39:52.000681Z`), and `java_sql_timestamp` (for example, `2018-05-30 09:39:52.000681`).	`double`
`json_date_key`	Specify the name of the time key in the output record. To disable the time key, set the value to `false`.	`date`
`workers`	The number of workers to perform flush operations for this output.	`1`

You can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:

From the command line you can let Fluent Bit discard events with the following options:

fluent-bit -i cpu -o null

In your main configuration file append the following:

{% tabs %} {% tab title="fluent-bit.yaml" %}

pipeline:
  inputs:
    - name: cpu
      tag: cpu

  outputs:
    - name: null
      match: '*'

{% endtab %} {% tab title="fluent-bit.conf" %}

[INPUT]
  Name cpu
  Tag  cpu

[OUTPUT]
  Name null
  Match *

{% endtab %} {% endtabs %}