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Overview

Discards all incoming records without writing anywhere. Useful for benchmarking source and transform throughput without sink I/O overhead, or for temporarily disabling output while iterating on transforms.

Configuration

Parameters

string
required
Must be blackhole
string
required
The transform or source to read data from

Use Cases

  • Performance Testing: Measure transform performance without sink overhead
  • Pipeline Validation: Test that data flows correctly without writing anywhere
  • Development: Temporarily disable output while working on transforms

Example