Use Observability Pipelines’ Socket source to send logs to the Worker over a socket connection (TCP or UDP). Select and set up this source when you set up a pipeline.

Prerequisites

If your forwarders are globally configured to enable SSL, you need the appropriate TLS certificates and the password for your private key.

Set up the source in the pipeline UI

Select and set up this source when you set up a pipeline. The information below is for the source settings in the pipeline UI.

1. In the Mode dropdown menu, select the socket type to use.
2. In the Framing dropdown menu, select how to delimit the stream of events.

   Framing method	Description
   newline_delimited	Byte frames are delimited by a newline character.
   bytes	Byte frames are passed through as-is according to the underlying I/O boundaries (for example, split between messages or stream segments).
   character_delimited	Byte frames are delimited by a chosen character.
   chunked_gelf	Byte frames are chunked GELF messages.
   octet_counting	Byte frames are delimited according to the octet counting format.