Fluentd is an open-source data collector designed to unify logging across diverse systems. It gathers, processes, and routes logs or events from various sources to multiple destinations like databases, cloud storage, or analytics tools. Fluentd's key benefits include its flexibility through plugins, ease of use with a unified logging layer, efficient resource usage, and scalability for handling large volumes of data. It simplifies log management, improves data analysis, and enables better monitoring and troubleshooting in distributed systems (even from SIEM solutions)

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Benefits:

Saves data on hard drive
Data is still there after restarts
No additional storage configuration needed
Retries when an endpoint is not available
Built-in reliability

Components

Docker Setup

Basics

Examples

HTTP Input

TCP Input