Let’s get started with Fluentd! Fluentd is a fully free and fully open-source log collector that instantly enables you to have a ‘Log Everything’ architecture with 125+ types of systems.

Fluentd treats logs as JSON, a popular machine-readable format. It is written primarily in C with a thin-Ruby wrapper that gives users flexibility.

Fluentd’s performance has been proven in the field: its largest user currently collects logs from 5000+ servers, 5 TB of daily data, handling 50,000 msgs/sec at peak time.

Step1: Installing Fluentd

Please follow the installation/quickstart guides below that matches your environment.

• Install Fluentd by Homebrew (Mac OS X)
• Install Fluentd by RPM package (Redhat Linux)
• Install Fluentd by Deb package (Ubuntu/Debian Linux)
• Install Fluentd by Ruby Gem
• Install Fluentd by Chef
• Install Fluentd from source

Fluentd runs on major PaaSs as well.

• Install Fluentd on Heroku
• Install Fluentd on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Step2: Use

The articles shown below cover the typical use cases of Fluentd. Please refer to the article(s) that suits your needs.

• Application Logs
  • Ruby, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Node.js, Scala
• Examples
  • Data Collection to MongoDB
  • Data Collection to HDFS
  • Data Analytics with Treasure Data
  • Data Archiving to Amazon S3
• Happy Users :)
  • Users

Step3: Learn More

The articles shown below will provide detailed information for you to learn more about Fluentd.

• Architecture Overview
• Plugin Overview
  • Input Plugins
  • Output Plugins
  • Buffer Plugins
• High Availability Configuration

If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please let us know or comment below. Fluentd Project is sponsored by Treasure Data, Inc