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The `fluentd` adapter is designed to deliver Istio log entries to a listening fluentd daemon.

## Params

Configuration parameters for the fluentd adapter.

This adapter accepts instances of kind: logentry. It then routes those logentries to a listening fluentd daemon with minimal transformation. Fluentd uses a “tag” for all logs. The “Name” of the logentry is used as the “tag”, unless the logentry already has a variable “tag”.

Field | Type | Description
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`address` | `string` | Address of listening fluentd daemon. Example: fluentd-server:24224 Default value is localhost:24224