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Logging in Action
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Logging in Action

by Phil Wilkins
April 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
392 pages
12h 2m
English
Manning Publications
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9 Creating custom plugins

This chapter covers

  • Developing custom Fluentd plugins for Redis
  • Using Fluentd utilities to speed up development
  • Implementing the Fluentd plugin life cycle methods
  • Testing and packaging custom Fluentd plugins
  • Creating documentation for the custom plugins

At various points in the book, we have referred to Fluentd’s support for the development of plugins beyond those from the core product. The extensibility of Fluentd has led to a robust ecosystem of third-party plugins to make it easy to capture, filter, manipulate, and send them to many different systems and data stores. We have also discussed how custom plugins could connect to and monitor esoteric and legacy solutions when things cannot easily or efficiently be achieved ...

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