# Fluentd Plugin API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/fluentd/fluentd-plugin-api/  
**Provider:** Fluentd — https://apis.io/providers/fluentd/  
**Documentation:** https://docs.fluentd.org/plugin-development

Fluentd Plugin API is one of 3 APIs that [Fluentd](https://apis.io/providers/fluentd/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Open-Source, Plugin Development, and Ruby. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

The Fluentd Plugin API allows developers to write custom input, output, filter, parser, formatter, and buffer plugins in Ruby. Plugins are distributed as RubyGems and integrate with Fluentd's plugin management system to extend data collection and processing pipelines.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.fluentd.org/plugin-development
- **Reference** — https://docs.fluentd.org/plugin-development/api-plugin-base
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fluentd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Fluentd APIs (2)

- [Fluentd Forward Protocol](https://apis.io/apis/fluentd/fluentd-forward-protocol/)
- [Fluentd Events API](https://apis.io/apis/fluentd/fluentd-events-api/)

## Tags

Open-Source, Plugin Development, Ruby

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