stdout

Writes events to the standard output or error stream. The simplest output plugin — useful for debugging, piping to another tool, or quick inspection.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Constraints	Description
`stream`	string	`"stdout"`	`"stdout"` or `"stderr"`	Target stream.
`flush_interval`	float	`1`	>= 0	Seconds between buffer flushes.
`encoding`	string	`"utf_8"`	Valid Python codec name.	Stream encoding.
`separator`	string	`"\n"` (OS line separator)	—	String inserted between events.
`formatter`	formatter	`plain`	—	How events are serialized before writing.

Buffered output is flushed every flush_interval seconds. Set to 0 for immediate output — useful during debugging, but reduces throughput.
Writing to stderr is useful when stdout is piped to another tool.

Minimal — write events to stdout with defaults:

output:
  - stdout: {}

Immediate flush to stderr:

output:
  - stdout:
      stream: stderr
      flush_interval: 0

JSON output to console:

output:
  - stdout:
      formatter:
        format: json
        indent: 2