[sinks.console]

title = "Console"

beta = false

common = false

delivery_guarantee = "best_effort"

egress_method = "streaming"

function_category = "test"

healthcheck = true

input_types = ["log", "metric"]

requirements = {}

write_to_description = "[standard output streams][urls.standard_streams], such as `STDOUT` and `STDERR`"

<%= render("_partials/_component_options.toml", type: "sink", name: "console") %>

[sinks.console.options.encoding]

type = "string"

category = "requests"

common = true

required = true

description = """\

The encoding format used to serialize the events before outputting.\

"""

[sinks.console.options.encoding.enum]

json = "Each event is encoded into JSON."

text = "Each event is encoded into text via the `message` key."

[sinks.console.options.target]

type = "string"

common = true

default = "stdout"

required = true

description = "The [standard stream][urls.standard_streams] to write to."

[sinks.console.options.target.enum]

stdout = "Output will be written to [STDOUT][urls.stdout]"

stderr = "Output will be written to [STDERR][urls.stderr]"