Today we discuss more on modular input. In this case, we talk about the properties we can set on the modular input data structure. One of the properties is the index. This talks about which index the events should goto. There us a default index but its preferable to store out events by their own index. The second property is the stanza name a unique source type for these kind of events. In fact the stanza is user specified and the events are often retrieved based on these literals.

The idea behind modular inputs seems to be to envelop the events to be differentiated from others. These help even before  parsing and indexing have taken place.
When we use the script object with the input we are able to govern the flow of these events. We increase it slowly from a trickle to a deluge if we wanted by varying the polling interval or the sampling rate

In addition to differentiating and regulating the flow, the modular inut and scripts can filter On raw data before they are sent over. For example the inbound and outbound messages may not only be differentiated but one selected over another