resource

Resource is an input type that runs a resource input by its name. This input allows you to run the same configured input resource in multiple places.

# Config fields, showing default values

input:

resource: ""

Resource inputs also have the advantage of name based metrics and logging. For example, the config:

input:

broker:

inputs:

- kafka_balanced:

addresses: [ TODO ]

topics: [ foo ]

consumer_group: foogroup

- gcp_pubsub:

project: bar

subscription: baz

Is equivalent to:

input:

broker:

inputs:

- resource: foo

- resource: bar

resources:

inputs:

foo:

kafka_balanced:

addresses: [ TODO ]

topics: [ foo ]

consumer_group: foogroup

bar:

gcp_pubsub:

project: bar

subscription: baz

But now the metrics path of Kafka input will be resources.inputs.foo, this way of flattening observability labels becomes more useful as configs get larger and more nested.