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Logging in Action
book

Logging in Action

by Phil Wilkins
April 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
392 pages
12h 2m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Logging in Action

1 Introduction to Fluentd

This chapter covers

  • Examining use cases for logs and log events
  • Identifying the value of log unification
  • Differentiating between log analytics and unified logging
  • Understanding monitoring concepts
  • Understanding Fluentd and Fluent Bit

Before getting into the details of Fluentd, we should first focus on the motivations for using a tool such as Fluentd. How can logging help us? What are log analytics, and why is log unification necessary? These are among the questions we will work to answer in this chapter. We’ll highlight the kinds of activities logging can help or enable us to achieve.

Let’s also take a step back and understand some contemporary thinking around how systems are measured and monitored; understanding these ...

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