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# Amazon Kinesis Stream Input source plugin

> Receive pipeline data from Amazon Kinesis Stream Input.

export const entity_0 = "Amazon Kinesis Stream Input source plugin"

export const plugin_0 = "Amazon Kinesis Stream Input source plugin"

<Info>
  This information is for Palo Alto Networks Telemetry Pipeline, which is a standalone
  product separate from Palo Alto Networks Cortex XCOR.
</Info>

The Amazon Kinesis Stream Input [source plugin](/ingest/pipeline/plugins/source-plugins)
(name: `aws_kinesis_stream`)
lets you retrieve data from Amazon Kinesis Stream and ingest it into a telemetry
pipeline.

This is a
[pull-based](/ingest/pipeline/plugins/source-plugins#push-based-and-pull-based-source-plugins)
source plugin.

<Note>
  This plugin doesn't support duplicates of itself within the same pipeline.
</Note>

## Supported telemetry types

The {plugin_0} for Palo Alto Networks Telemetry Pipeline supports these telemetry types:

| Logs | Metrics | Traces |
| :-: | :-: | :-: |
| <Icon icon="circle-check" color="green" /> | <Icon icon="ban" color="red" /> | <Icon icon="ban" color="red" /> |

## Configuration parameters

Use the parameters in this section to configure the {entity_0}. The
Palo Alto Networks Telemetry Pipeline web interface uses the items in the **Name** column to
describe these parameters. [Pipeline configuration files](/ingest/pipeline/v2/configure/config-files)
use the items in the **Key** column as YAML keys.

### Required

| Name | Key | Description | Default |
| - | - | - | - |
| **AWS Access Key** | `aws_access_key_id` | Required. Your AWS access key path. | *none* |
| **AWS Secret Key** | `aws_secret_access_key` | Required. Your AWS secret key path. | *none* |
| **AWS Kinesis Stream Name** | `stream_name` | Required. The AWS Kinesis stream name. | *none* |
| **AWS Region** | `aws_region` | Required. The name of the AWS region. For example, `us-east-1`. | *none* |

### Advanced

| Name | Key | Description | Default |
| - | - | - | - |
| **Number of fetched records** | `limit` | The maximum number of records to fetch from the stream on each iteration. | `1000` |
| **Pull Interval** | `empty_interval` | How long to wait before fetching more records. If the stream returns empty, Palo Alto Networks Telemetry Pipeline will continue to pull. | `1s` |
| **Memory Buffer Limit** | `mem_buf_limit` | Sets a limit for how much buffered data the plugin can write to memory, which affects backpressure. This value must follow Fluent Bit's rules for [unit sizes](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/administration/configuring-fluent-bit#unit-sizes). If unspecified, no limit is enforced. <p />For v2 pipelines, this parameter affects only pipelines with the Deployment or DaemonSet [workload](/ingest/pipeline/v2/configure/kubernetes/workloads) type. To learn more, see the v2 [backpressure](/ingest/pipeline/v2/configure/backpressure) guide. <p />For v3 pipelines, this parameter is independent from the [OpenTelemetry `memory_limiter` and `batch` processors](/ingest/pipeline/v3#route-data-from-fluent-bit-to-opentelemetry). | *none* |


## Related topics

- [Amazon Kinesis Streams destination plugin](/ingest/pipeline/plugins/destination-plugins/aws-streams.md)
- [Amazon Kinesis Firehose source plugin](/ingest/pipeline/plugins/source-plugins/aws-firehose.md)
- [Amazon Kinesis Firehose destination plugin](/ingest/pipeline/plugins/destination-plugins/aws-firehose.md)
- [Ingest telemetry data with source plugins](/ingest/pipeline/plugins/source-plugins.md)
- [Send telemetry data with destination plugins](/ingest/pipeline/plugins/destination-plugins.md)


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