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Appendix D. Real-world use case

D.1 Fluentd use in a real-world use case

Throughout the book, we have focused on explaining how to use Fluentd. The explanations have focused on specific areas rather than providing a holistic view. This appendix seeks to redress that by providing a more holistic picture.

This appendix has taken several similar real-world scenarios and blended them to avoid giving any client information away. Blending the cases together has allowed us to also incorporate more lessons. We won’t go into the specific configuration details, as they’re covered in the core of the book, but this should help you understand why we value some features.

D.2 Setting the scene

Our organization started about 30 years ago as a single-country ...