td-agent v2 vs v3 vs v4

The series of td-agent had already reached End of Life (EOL). td-agent should not be newly installed because no support, no new release and no security updates anymore.

Supported Platforms

ClearCode, Inc. maintains stable packages for Fluentd and canonical plugins as Treasure Agent (the package is called td-agent). td-agent has v2, v3 and v4. Chronosphere (formerly Calyptia) maintains stable packages as Calyptia-fluentd as another option. Supported OS is the same as td-agent v4 currently.

Platform	v2	v3	v4(x86_64)	v4(Arm64)
RedHat/CentOS 5	✔
RedHat/CentOS 6	✔	✔
RedHat/CentOS 7	✔	✔	✔	✔
RedHat/CentOS 8		✔	✔	✔
Amazon Linux 2		✔	✔	✔
Ubuntu Precise	✔
Ubuntu Trusty	✔	✔
Ubuntu Xenial	✔	✔	✔
Ubuntu Bionic	✔	✔	✔	✔
Ubuntu Focal			✔	✔
Debian Jessie	✔	✔
Debian Stretch	✔	✔
Debian Buster		✔	✔	✔
macOS	✔	✔
Windows		✔	✔

Features

td-agent v4

New stable. Major feature updates to td-agent v4 are as follows:

• Ruby 2.7

• Fluentd v1

• Arm64 Support

See also Changes from Treasure Agent 3.

td-agent v3

Old stable.

• Ruby 2.4

• Fluentd v1

• Windows Support

• Remove fluentd-ui from the package

td-agent v2

This is for v0.12 and old distribution users. We don't recommend this version for new deployments.

How to Install

• Ubuntu/Debian

• RedHat/CentOS

• Windows
• macOS
• RubyGems

If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please let us know. Fluentd is an open-source project under Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). All components are available under under the Apache License 2.0.