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# Fluent Forward

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<Note>
  This feature is available as an add-on for the [Honeycomb Enterprise plan](https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing/).
  Please contact your Honeycomb account team for details.
</Note>

## Description

​The Fluent Forward source type can receive logs from Fluentd and Fluentbit agents or software capable of emitting logs using the [Fluent Forward Protocol](https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/wiki/Forward-Protocol-Specification-v1#fluentd-forward-protocol-specification-v1).\
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The Fluent Forward source type is useful for integrating Open Telemetry-based collectors into an existing environment where Fluentd or Fluentbit is the primary collection system for logs.

## Supported Platforms

| Platform | Metrics | Logs | Traces |
| :------- | :------ | :--- | :----- |
| Linux    |         | ✓    |        |
| Windows  |         | ✓    |        |
| macOS    |         | ✓    |        |

## Configuration Table

| Parameter       | Type     | Default   | Description                                                                      |
| :-------------- | :------- | :-------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| listen\_address | `string` | `0.0.0.0` | The IP address to listen on and receive logs from Fluent Forward capable agents. |
| port            | `int`    | `24224`   | TCP port to listen on and receive logs from Fluent Forward capable agents.       |

See the Open Telemetry [Fluent Forward Receiver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver) documentation for more information.