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How to integrate Fluentd locally​

  1. Append this to your td-agent.conf .
  2. For the path you will have to create a log.json file in the directory and write some sample logs in it.
  3. You can run the command tail -f /var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log
  4. Make sure the ES Version in server.yaml matches the version of ES Fluentd plugin version.
<source>
  @type tail
  format json
  read_from_head true
  path /home/username/sigscalr/log.json # this is the path of all log files generated by genevents
  pos_file /var/log/td-agent/httpd-access.log.pos
  tag hyperion
</source>

<match hyperion>
  @type elasticsearch
  host localhost
  port 8081
  path /elastic
  <buffer>
    flush_mode interval
    flush_interval 1s  # for test purpose
  </buffer>
</match>