= socket
:type: output
:status: stable
:categories: ["Network"]



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Connects to a (tcp/udp/unix) server and sends a continuous stream of data, dividing messages according to the specified codec.

```yml
# Config fields, showing default values
output:
  label: ""
  socket:
    network: "" # No default (required)
    address: /tmp/benthos.sock # No default (required)
    codec: lines
```

== Fields

=== `network`

A network type to connect as.


*Type*: `string`


Options:
`unix`
, `tcp`
, `udp`
.

=== `address`

The address to connect to.


*Type*: `string`


```yml
# Examples

address: /tmp/benthos.sock

address: 127.0.0.1:6000
```

=== `codec`

The way in which the bytes of messages should be written out into the output data stream. It's possible to write lines using a custom delimiter with the `delim:x` codec, where x is the character sequence custom delimiter.


*Type*: `string`

*Default*: `"lines"`

|===
| Option | Summary

| `all-bytes`
| Only applicable to file based outputs. Writes each message to a file in full, if the file already exists the old content is deleted.
| `append`
| Append each message to the output stream without any delimiter or special encoding.
| `lines`
| Append each message to the output stream followed by a line break.
| `delim:x`
| Append each message to the output stream followed by a custom delimiter.

|===

```yml
# Examples

codec: lines

codec: "delim:\t"

codec: delim:foobar
```