Fluentd Docker Image

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What is Fluentd?

Fluentd is an open source data collector, which lets you unify the data collection and consumption for a better use and understanding of data.

www.fluentd.org

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Current images (Edge)

These tags have image version postfix. This updates many places so we need feedback for improve/fix the images.

Current images use fluentd v1 series.

Tip

About deprecated old images, See DEPRECATED

We recommend to use debian version for production because it uses jemalloc to mitigate memory fragmentation issue.

If you want to know the detail of supported image tags, see TAGRULE explanation.

Using Kubernetes?

Check fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset images.

How to use this image

To create endpoint that collects logs on your host just run:

docker run -d -p 24224:24224 -p 24224:24224/udp -v /data:/fluentd/log fluent/fluentd:v1.3-debian-1

Default configurations are to:

  • listen port 24224 for Fluentd forward protocol
  • store logs with tag docker.** into /fluentd/log/docker.*.log (and symlink docker.log)
  • store all other logs into /fluentd/log/data.*.log (and symlink data.log)

Providing your own configuration file and additional options

fluentd arguments can be appended to the docker run line

For example, to provide a bespoke config and make fluentd verbose, then:

docker run -ti --rm -v /path/to/dir:/fluentd/etc fluent/fluentd -c /fluentd/etc/<conf> -v

The first -v tells Docker to share '/path/to/dir' as a volume and mount it at /fluentd/etc The -c after the container name (fluentd) tells fluentd where to find the config file The second -v is passed to fluentd to tell it to be verbose

Change running user

Use -u option with docker run.

docker run -p 24224:24224 -u foo -v ...

How to build your own image?

Check HOWTOBUILD explanation.

References

Docker Logging | fluentd.org

Fluentd logging driver - Docker Docs

Issues

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If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact us through a GitHub issue.

FAQ

Permission Issues with v1.19+

Due to a change in the default UID in vX.Y-A and vX.Y.Z-A.B images since v1.19, you may encount permission errors when writing to mounted volumes. To resolve this, please chown your data directories to the new UID.

For more details, please refer to #448.