Fluentd: a high performance unified logging layer

Re:Fluentd: a high performance unified logging layer by marcusmartins on Friday August 21, 2015 @01:42AM (#10096130)

Heka by Mozilla is another alternative - http://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/latest/. I have been running in production to ship docker logs to our Elasticsearch cluster.

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Re:Fluentd: a high performance unified logging layer by jedisct1 on Friday August 21, 2015 @05:53AM (#10096689)

Heka's really nice, and the lua sandbox makes it easy to write new codecs.

We (OVH) recently tried Heka to push syslog data into Kafka, but it eventually kept crashing under load. Other alternatives were way to slow for our needs.

So we ended up writing a simple tool, not as flexible as Heka but about 10 times faster https://github.com/jedisct1/flowgger

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Re:Fluentd: a high performance unified logging layer by kiyoto on Friday August 21, 2015 @01:52AM (#10096143)

Interesting. Do you run hekad on the host machine?

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