Fluentd

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Overview

Fluentd is an open source unified logging layer: a flexible, plugin-driven log collector that unifies log collection, parsing, buffering and routing across your whole stack. It ingests logs from many sources, structures them as JSON, runs them through a configurable pipeline of filters, then routes the records to hundreds of destinations including Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Loki, Kafka, S3, CloudWatch, MongoDB and any HTTP endpoint. This image delivers Fluentd fully installed and running as a system service with a working sample pipeline, so a logging appliance is processing records within minutes of launch.

Log Pipeline Service

The fluentd daemon installed from the official fluent-package distribution and run by the bundled systemd service, started on boot and restarted on failure. A self-contained sample pipeline ships ready to run, generating a steady record stream into a buffered file output and the journal, so you can confirm the pipeline is flushing records the moment you log in. Replace the sample inputs and outputs with your own to start collecting and routing your real logs.

Built-in Monitoring Endpoint

The built-in monitor_agent HTTP endpoint is enabled and bound to loopback, so the plugins and configuration endpoints answer on the instance with live per-plugin buffer, retry and emitted-record counters. Scrape it from your supervisor, wire it into a health check, or expose it on your own terms. No web interface to secure: the monitoring endpoint is read-only and stays private by default.

Configurable Pipeline

Fluentd reads its pipeline from a simple configuration file. Define sources to tail files, read the systemd journal, listen for forward, syslog, TCP or HTTP traffic; chain filters to enrich, redact, parse and rewrite; and fan out to multiple outputs in parallel. A persistent file buffer on a dedicated data disk backs the outputs so bursts and brief destination outages do not drop records. A vast ecosystem of input, filter and output plugins installs in seconds with the bundled fluent-gem tool.

Ready To Use

Connect over SSH and the pipeline is already running. Read the welcome notes, edit the configuration file, point the sources at your log inputs and the outputs at your destinations, then reload the service. The file buffer and the sample persisted output live on a dedicated, independently resizable data disk.

cloudimg Support

24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with pipeline design, input and output plugin configuration, parsers and filters, multiline log handling, buffering and backpressure, routing to your observability backend and upgrade planning.

Use Cases

A central log aggregator unifying application and system logs from across your fleet. An edge collector parsing and filtering telemetry before it leaves your network. A reliable forwarder buffering and routing logs to your observability backend. A plugin-rich, battle-tested log collection layer for cloud-native workloads.

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