This article explains how to install the td-agent rpm package, the stable Fluentd distribution package maintained by Treasure Data, Inc.
NOTE: Currently, Amazon Linux is NOT supported officially because Amazon Linux doesn't guarantee ABI compatibility. RPM for CentOS 7 may work.
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 is providing the stable distribution of Fluentd, called td-agent. The differences between Fluentd and td-agent can be found here.
NOTE: This installation guide is for td-agent v2, the current stable version. See this page for the comparison between v1 and v2. Here is the rpm installation guide for v1.
Please follow the Preinstallation Guide to configure your OS properly. This will prevent many unnecessary problems.
CentOS and RHEL 5, 6 and 7 are currently supported.
Executing install-redhat-td-agent2.sh will automatically install td-agent on your machine. This shell script registers a new rpm repository at /etc/yum.repos.d/td.repo and installs the td-agent rpm package.
$ curl -L http://toolbelt.treasuredata.com/sh/install-redhat-td-agent2.sh | sh
NOTE: It's HIGHLY recommended that you set up ntpd on the node to prevent invalid timestamps in your logs.
The /etc/init.d/td-agent script is provided to start, stop, or restart the agent.
$ /etc/init.d/td-agent start
Starting td-agent: [ OK ]
$ /etc/init.d/td-agent status
td-agent (pid 21678) is running...
The following commands are supported:
$ /etc/init.d/td-agent start
$ /etc/init.d/td-agent stop
$ /etc/init.d/td-agent restart
$ /etc/init.d/td-agent status
Please make sure your configuration file is located at /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf.
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