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:

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:

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.

You can find out more about resources in this document.