Looking to get data out of syslog into mongo? You can do that with fluentd in 10 minutes!
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Here is how:
$ gem install fluentd
$ gem install fluent-plugin-mongo
$ touch fluentd.conf
fluentd.conf
should look like this (just copy and paste this into fluentd.conf):
<source>
type syslog
port 5140
bind 0.0.0.0
tag system.local
</source>
<match **>
type mongo
database <db name> #(required)
collection <collection name> #(optional; default="untagged")
host <hostname> #(optional; default="localhost")
port <port> #(optional; default=27017)
</match>
After that, you can start fluentd and everything should work:
$ fluentd -c fluentd.conf
Of course, this is just a quick example. If you are thinking of running fluentd in production, consider using td-agent, the enterprise version of Fluentd packaged and maintained by Treasure Data, Inc..