workers | No | Integer | Essentially the number of application threads. As a starting point for your use case, try setting this value to the number of CPU cores on the machine. Default is 1.
delay | No | Integer | Amount of time in milliseconds workers wait between buffer read attempts. Default is `3000`.
## General sink options
The following options are available for all sinks.
Option | Required | Type | Description
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routes | No | String list | A list of routes for which this sink applies. If not provided, this sink receives all events. See [conditional routing]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/data-prepper/pipelines/pipelines#conditional-routing) for more information.
tags_target_key | No | String | When specified, includes event tags in the output of the provided key.
include_keys | No | String list | When specified, provides the keys in this list in the data sent to the sink.
exclude_keys | No | String list | When specified, excludes the keys given from the data sent to the sink.