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The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

This mode is useful to get a specific line. This is an example to get CPU frequency from /proc/cpuinfo.

Cpu frequency is “cpu MHz : 2791.009”. We can get the line with this configuration file.

Output is

Getting Started

The following example will read events from the /proc/uptime file, tag the records with the uptime name and flush them back to the stdout plugin:

In your main configuration file append the following Input & Output sections:

e.g. 1.5s = 1s + 500000000ns