Getting Started

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 125+ 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 performance has been proven in the field: its largest user currently collects logs from 5000+ servers, 5 TB of daily data, handling 50,000 msgs/sec at peak time.

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 (Apple OSX)
• Install Fluentd by Ruby Gem
• Install Fluentd by Chef
• Install Fluentd from source

NOTE: Fluentd is currently not supported on Windows. Please see Windows Data Collection for details.

Usage, examples and others

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

• Application Logs
  • Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, NodeJS, Java, Scala
• Examples
  • Log Management & Search (data search like Splunk)
  • Log Filtering and Alerting
  • Big Data Analytics with Treasure Data
  • Data Collection to MongoDB
  • Data Collection to HDFS
  • Data Archiving to S3
  • Windows Data Collection
• Basic Configuration
  • Configuration File
• Happy Users :)
  • Users

Learn More

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

• Architecture Overview
• Plugin Overview
  • Input Plugins
  • Output Plugins
  • Buffer Plugins
• High Availability
• FAQ