Fluentd alternatives and similar tools
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Flume
Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log-like data -
Echofish
Central syslog manager with whitelisting and ability to generate events from syslog entries -
Sending your docker logs
DISCONTINUED. Sending logs from docker containers to Logit.io [GET https://api.github.com/repos/logit-io/logitio-docker: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository] -
Loki
horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads

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Fluentd: Open-Source Log Collector
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Fluentd helps you unify your logging infrastructure (Learn more about the Unified Logging Layer).
Quick Start
$ gem install fluentd
$ fluentd -s conf
$ fluentd -c conf/fluent.conf &
$ echo '{"json":"message"}' | fluent-cat debug.test
Development
Branch
- master: For v1 development.
- v0.12: For v0.12. This is deprecated version. we already stopped supporting (See https://www.fluentd.org/blog/drop-schedule-announcement-in-2019).
Prerequisites
- Ruby 2.4 or later
- git
git
should be in PATH
. On Windows, you can use Github for Windows
and GitShell
for easy setup.
Install dependent gems
Use bundler:
$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install --path vendor/bundle
Run test
$ bundle exec rake test
You can run specified test via TEST
environment variable:
$ bundle exec rake test TEST=test/test_specified_path.rb
$ bundle exec rake test TEST=test/test_*.rb
More Information
- Website: https://www.fluentd.org/
- Documentation: https://docs.fluentd.org/
- Project repository: https://github.com/fluent
- Discussion: https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/discussions
- Slack / Community: https://slack.fluentd.org
- Newsletters: https://www.fluentd.org/newsletter
- Author: Sadayuki Furuhashi
- Copyright: 2011-2021 Fluentd Authors
- License: Apache License, Version 2.0
Security
A third party security audit was performed by Cure53, you can see the full report [here](docs/SECURITY_AUDIT.pdf).
See [SECURITY](SECURITY.md) to contact us about vulnerability.
Contributors:
Patches contributed by great developers.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Fluentd README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.