# Install By Dmg

This article explains how to install td-agent, the stable Fluentd distribution package maintained by [Treasure Data, Inc](http://www.treasuredata.com/), on MacOS X.

## What is td-agent?

Fluentd is written in Ruby for flexibility, with performance sensitive parts written in C. However, casual users may have difficulty installing and operating a Ruby daemon.

That's why [Treasure Data, Inc](http://www.treasuredata.com/) is providing **the stable distribution of Fluentd**, called `td-agent`. The differences between Fluentd and td-agent can be found [here](http://www.fluentd.org/faqs).

For MacOS X, we're using the OS native .dmg Installer to distribute td-agent.

## Step1: Install td-agent

Please download the `.dmg` file from here, and install the software.

* [Download](https://td-agent-package-browser.herokuapp.com/2/macosx)

## Step2: Launch td-agent

You can launch `td-agent` with `launchctl` command. Please make sure the daemon started correctly from the log (`/var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log`).

```
$ sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/td-agent.plist
$ less /var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log
2013-04-19 16:55:03 -0700 [info]: starting fluentd-0.10.33
2013-04-19 16:55:03 -0700 [info]: reading config file path="/etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf"
```

**Your configuration file** is located at `/etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf`. Your plugin directory is at `/etc/td-agent/plugin`. In case you want to stop the agent, please execute the command below.

```
$ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/td-agent.plist
```

## Step3: Post Sample Logs via HTTP

By default, `/etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf` is configured to take logs from HTTP and route them to stdout (`/var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log`). You can post sample log records using the curl command.

```
$ curl -X POST -d 'json={"json":"message"}' http://localhost:8888/debug.test
$ tail -n 1 /var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log
2013-04-19 16:51:47 -0700 debug.test: {"json":"message"}
```

## Uninstall td-agent

td-agent for Mac doesn't provide uninstallation app unlike rpm / deb. If you want to uninstall td-agent from your Mac, remove these files / directories.

* /Library/LaunchDaemons/td-agent.plist
* /etc/td-agent
* /opt/td-agent
* /var/log/td-agent

## Next Steps

You're now ready to collect your real logs using Fluentd. Please see the following tutorials to learn how to collect your data from various data sources.

* Basic Configuration
  * [Config File](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/configuration/config-file)
* Application Logs
  * [Ruby](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/ruby), [Java](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/java), [Python](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/python), [PHP](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/php),

    [Perl](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/perl), [Node.js](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/nodejs), [Scala](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/scala)
* Examples
  * [Store Apache Log into Amazon S3](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/apache-to-s3)
  * [Store Apache Log into MongoDB](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/apache-to-mongodb)
  * [Data Collection into HDFS](https://docs.fluentd.org/0.12/articles/http-to-hdfs)

Please refer to the resources below for further steps.

* [ChangeLog of td-agent](https://docs.treasuredata.com/display/public/PD/The+td-agent+Change+Log)
* [Chef Cookbook](https://github.com/treasure-data/chef-td-agent/)

If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please [let us know](https://github.com/fluent/fluentd-docs-gitbook/issues?state=open). [Fluentd](http://www.fluentd.org/) is a open source project under [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)](https://cncf.io/). All components are available under the Apache 2 License.


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