Overview

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 600+ 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 scalability has been proven in the field: its largest user currently collects logs from 500,000+ servers.

Step1: Installing Fluentd

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

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

Fluentd v0.12 doesn't support Windows environment. Please see Collecting Log Data from Windows for details. Fluentd v1.x supports Windows.

Step2: Use Cases

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

• Use Cases

  • Data Search like Splunk
  • Data Filtering and Alerting
  • Data Analytics with Treasure Data
  • Data Collection to MongoDB
  • Data Collection to HDFS
  • Data Archiving to Amazon S3
  • Windows Event Collection
• Basic Configuration

  • Config File
• Application Logs

  • Ruby, Java, Python, PHP,

    Perl, Node.js, Scala
• Happy Users :)

  • Users

Step3: Learn More

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

• Architecture Overview
• Life of a Fluentd Event
• Plugin Overview

  • Input Plugins
  • Output Plugins
  • Buffer Plugins
  • Filter Plugins
  • Parser Plugins
  • Formatter Plugins
• High Availability Configuration
• FAQ

If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please let us know. Fluentd is a open source project under Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). All components are available under the Apache 2 License.