Logging in Action

3 Using Fluentd to capture log events

This chapter covers

• Configuring Fluentd for the input of log files
• Examining the impact of stopping and starting during file reading by Fluentd
• Using parsers to extract more meaning from log events
• Self-monitoring and external monitoring of Fluentd using APIs

With the conceptual and architectural foundations set up, and having run a simple configuration, we’re ready to start looking at the capture of log events in more detail. In this chapter, we’re going to focus on capturing log events. But before we do, let’s look at how we can check that our Fluentd configuration is correct.

Setting up to follow and try the configurations

A quick note about how we’re presenting code in the book. To avoid the book becoming ...