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Stability	beta: metrics
Distributions	contrib, observiq, splunk, sumo
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Code Owners	@aboguszewski-sumo

The Carbon receiver supports Carbon's plaintext protocol.

ℹ️ The wavefront receiver is based on Carbon and binds to the same port by default. This means the carbon and wavefront receivers cannot both be enabled with their respective default configurations. To support running both receivers in parallel, change the endpoint port on one of the receivers.

The following settings are required:

• endpoint (default = 0.0.0.0:2003): Address and port that the receiver should bind to.
• transport (default = tcp): Must be either tcp or udp.

The following setting are optional:

• tcp_idle_timeout (default = 30s): The maximum duration that a tcp connection will idle wait for new data. This value is ignored if the transport is not tcp.

In addition, a parser section can be defined with the following settings:

• type (default plaintext): Specifies the type of parser to be used and must be either plaintext or regex.
• config: Specifies any special configuration of the selected parser.

Example:

receivers:
  carbon/receiver_settings:
    endpoint: localhost:8080
    transport: udp
  carbon/regex:
    parser:
      type: regex
      config:
        rules:
          - regexp: "(?P<key_base>test)\\.env(?P<key_env>[^.]*)\\.(?P<key_host>[^.]*)"
            name_prefix: "name-prefix"
            labels:
              dot.key: dot.value
              key: value
            type: cumulative
          - regexp: "(?P<key_just>test)\\.(?P<key_match>.*)"
        name_separator: "_"

The full list of settings exposed for this receiver are documented here with detailed sample configurations here.