multiprocess

By default, Fluentd only uses a single CPU core on the system. The in_multiprocess Input plugin enables Fluentd to use multiple CPU cores by spawning multiple child processes. One Fluentd user is using this plugin to handle 10+ billion records / day.

Install

in_multiprocess is NOT included in td-agent by default. td-agent users must install fluent-plugin-multiprocess manually.

• Fluentd: fluent-gem install fluent-plugin-multiprocess

• td-agent v2:

  /usr/sbin/td-agent-gem install fluent-plugin-multiprocess

• td-agent v1:

  /usr/lib/fluent/ruby/bin/fluent-gem install fluent-plugin-multiprocess

Example Configuration

<source>
  @type multiprocess

  <process>
    cmdline -c /etc/fluent/fluentd_child1.conf --log /var/log/fluent/fluentd_child1.log
    sleep_before_start 1s
    sleep_before_shutdown 5s
  </process>
  <process>
    cmdline -c /etc/fluent/fluentd_child2.conf --log /var/log/fluent/fluentd_child2.log
    sleep_before_start 1s
    sleep_before_shutdown 5s
  </process>
  <process>
    cmdline -c /etc/fluent/fluentd_child3.conf --log /var/log/fluent/fluentd_child3.log
    sleep_before_start 1s
    sleep_before_shutdown 5s
  </process>
</source>

Please see the Config File article for the basic structure and syntax of the configuration file.

Especially for daemonized fluentd (ex: td-agent), `--log` option MUST be specified to put logs of child processes.

Parameters

type (required)

The value must be multiprocess.

graceful_kill_interval

The interval to send the signal to gracefully shut down the process (default: 2sec).

graceful_kill_interval_increment

The increment time, when graceful shutdown fails (default: 3sec).

graceful_kill_timeout

The timeout, to identify the failure of graceful shutdown (default: 60sec).

process (required)

The process section sets the command line arguments of a child process. This plugin creates one child process for each section.

cmdline (required)

The cmdline option is required in a section

sleep_before_start

This parameter sets the wait time before starting the process (default: 0sec).

sleep_before_shutdown

This parameter sets the wait time before shutting down the process (default: 0sec).

log_level option

The log_level option allows the user to set different levels of logging for each plugin. The supported log levels are: fatal, error, warn, info, debug, and trace.

Please see the logging article for further details.

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