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# Summary
- [**Name**](#name)
- [**Attributes**](#attributes)
- [**How To Enable**](#how-to-enable)
- [**Test Plugin**](#test-plugin)
- [**Disable Plugin**](#disable-plugin)


## Name

`tcp-logger` is a plugin which push Log data requests to TCP servers.

This will provide the ability to send Log data requests as JSON objects to Monitoring tools and other TCP servers.

## Attributes

|Name           |Requirement    |Description|
|---------      |--------       |-----------|
|host           |required       | IP address or the Hostname of the TCP server.|
|port           |required       | Target upstream port.|
|timeout        |optional       |Timeout for the upstream to send data.|
|tls            |optional       |Boolean value to control whether to perform SSL verification|
|tls_options    |optional       |tls options|
|name           |optional       |A unique identifier to identity the batch processor|
|batch_max_size |optional       |Max size of each batch, default is 1000|
|inactive_timeout|optional      |maximum age in seconds when the buffer will be flushed if inactive, default is 5s|
|buffer_duration|optional       |Maximum age in seconds of the oldest entry in a batch before the batch must be processed, default is 5|
|max_retry_count|optional       |Maximum number of retries before removing from the processing pipe line; default is zero|
|retry_delay    |optional       |Number of seconds the process execution should be delayed if the execution fails; default is 1|


## How To Enable

The following is an example on how to enable the tcp-logger for a specific route.

```shell
curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/consumers -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "username": "foo",
    "plugins": {
          "plugins": {
                "tcp-logger": {
                     "host": "127.0.0.1",
                     "port": 5044,
                     "tls": false,
                     "batch_max_size": 1,
                     "name": "tcp logger"
                }
           },
          "upstream": {
               "type": "roundrobin",
               "nodes": {
                   "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
               }
          },
          "uri": "/hello"
    }
}'
```

## Test Plugin

* success:

```shell
$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/hello
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...
hello, world
```

## Disable Plugin

Remove the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration to disable the `tcp-logger`.
APISIX plugins are hot-reloaded, therefore no need to restart APISIX.

```shell
$ curl http://127.0.0.1:2379/apisix/admin/routes/1 -X PUT -d value='
{
    "methods": ["GET"],
    "uri": "/hello",
    "plugins": {},
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'
```