Plugins

Tenzir has a plugin system that makes it easy to hook into various places of the data processing pipeline and add custom functionality in a safe and sustainable way. A set of customization points allow anyone to add new functionality that adds CLI commands, receives a copy of the input stream, spawns queries, or implements integrations with third-party libraries.

There exist dynamic plugins that come in the form shared libraries, and static plugins that are compiled into libtenzir or Tenzir itself:

Plugins do not only exist for extensions by third parties, but Tenzir also implements core functionality through the plugin API. Such plugins compile as static plugins. Because they are always built, we call them builtins.