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# FlowCounter

_FlowCounter_ is the protocol to count records. The **flowcounter** output plugin allows to count up records and its size.
The _FlowCounter_ output plugin lets you count up records and their size.

## Configuration Parameters
## Configuration parameters

The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

| Key | Description | Default |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Unit | The unit of duration. \(second/minute/hour/day\) | minute |
| Workers | The number of [workers](../../administration/multithreading.md#outputs) to perform flush operations for this output. | `0` |
| `Unit` | The unit of duration. Allowed values: `second`, `minute`, `hour`, `day` | `minute` |
| `Workers` | The number of [workers](../../administration/multithreading.md#outputs) to perform flush operations for this output. | `0` |

## Getting Started
## Get started

You can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:
You can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file.

### Command Line
### Command line

From the command line you can let Fluent Bit count up a data with the following options:
From the command line you can let Fluent Bit count up data with the following options:

```shell
fluent-bit -i cpu -o flowcounter
```

### Configuration File
### Configuration file

In your main configuration file append the following:

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inputs:
- name: cpu
tag: cpu

outputs:
- name: flowcounter
match: '*'
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## Testing

Once Fluent Bit is running, you will see the reports in the output interface similar to this:
When Fluent Bit is running, you will see the reports in the output interface similar to this:

```text
...
[out_flowcounter] cpu.0:[1482458540, {"counts":60, "bytes":7560, "counts/minute":1, "bytes/minute":126 }]
...
```
```
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- Elastic Cloud
- Emmet
- EventBridge
- FlowCounter
- Fluent Bit
- GCP
- GitLab
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