September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
360 pages
8h 13m
English
Fluentd is another tool to process log files. There are three components of Fluentd, the same as in Logstash, which are input, filter, and output. There are multiple input and output plugins are available as per the needs of your use case. Here, we will demonstrate a similar example to those seen previously, that is, reading from the log file and pushing it into Kafka.
Download Fluentd from https://www.fluentd.org/download. As we are using Ubuntu, select Debian installation. Download td-agent_2.3.4-0_amd64.deb and install it using Software Center in Ubuntu.
Once it is installed on the system, validate it using the following command:
sudo td-agent --dry-run
The following output will be generated and certify that everything is good: ...
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