Command Line Option
This article describes built-in commands and its options
fluentd
Invoke fluentd. Here is supported options:
Important options
--suppress-config-dump
Fluentd starts without configuration dump. If you don't want to show configuration in fluentd logs, e.g. don't show private keys, this options is useful.
--suppress-repeated-stacktrace
If set true, suppress stacktrace in fluentd logs. Since v0.12, this option is true by default.
--without-source
Fluentd starts without input plugins. This option is useful for flushing buffers with no new incoming events.
-i, --inline-config
If you use fluentd on XaaS which doesn't support persistent disks, this option is useful.
--no-supervisor
If you want to use your supervisor tools, this option avoids double supervisor.
Set via configuration file
Several options could be set via <system>
directive configuration file. See configuration file article.
fluent-cat
Send event to fluentd's in_forward
/in_unix
plugin. This is useful for testing.
example
Send json message with debug.log
tag to local fluentd:
Send to other machine:
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