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Debug (/dev/null) Destination

The Debug (/dev/null) destination acts as a blackhole for your observability pipeline. It is designed for testing and debugging purposes: any data sent to this destination is discarded and not forwarded to any observability backend. This is useful for validating pipeline configurations, transformations, and flows without actually exporting data.

Supported Data Types

📘 Logs | 📈 Metrics | 🚦 Traces

Configuration

FieldTypeDefaultRequiredDescription
NameStringnonetrueUnique identifier for this destination configuration.

Note: No data is sent to any backend when using this destination. Use it for safe testing and pipeline validation.