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GCE stackdriver logging agent (fluentd) memory leak with COS

I have a VM on GCE where I run a custom Docker image. I installed it on COS (cos-stable-74-11895-125-0) to a g1-small (1 vCPU, 1.7 GB memory) instance. It is an Elasticsearch with locked memory ...
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Fluentd Tail of multiple locations

Im a beginner in the world of fluentd so please keep this in mind when answering my question. Im trying to tail multiple locations Ive created 2 source tags <source> @type tail path E:/...
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fluentd correct mapping and indexing of @timestamp

The timestamp in Kibana is a long field (containing a unix timestamp) with the following configuration: <source> @type tail path /logs/other_vhosts_access.log pos_file /logs/access.log....
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Kubernetes DaemonSet Pod exceeds memory limit but is not killed

We use kubernetes (specifically: openshift) to run our infrastructure in our team. One of the daemonsets, fluentd, is currently causing a lot of trouble, frequently taking full nodes down with huge ...
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Disable fluentd on on Container-Optimized OS (GCE)

I would like to disable fluentd on a VM instance running Container-Optimized OS on Google compute engine. The reason being that it is eating up a lot of RAM for functionalities I do not require. $ ...
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installing google-fluentd agent on docker produce an error

I am trying to install google-fluentd agent on a docker and get the following error: Restarting google-fluentd: google-fluentd ... failed! The OS is Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Docker file snippet:...
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Parsing or Reformatting Logs before feeding them to Splunk or Elastic Search

I have very complex log messages, that I want to reduce to the most important fields in order to save quota. The log messages are multiline and there is a lot of redundant information in them. A ...
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Is there a preferred way to migrate from logcheck to fluentd?

Logcheck uses a negative filter approach, you specify the log messages that you consider harmless and you will see the rest. Looking at fluentd it is the opposite, it will filter messages that are ...
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Send Kube logs to Cloudwatch using fluentd

My cluster is on AWS and I've used kops to build by cluster. I'm trying to send the kubernetes logs to AWS Cloud-watch using fluentd. I was able to stand-up the fluentd pods. I am seeing the below ...
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Routing Fluent Bit tcp event doesn't match to Fluent

i’m new to Fluent and Fluent Bit. Fluent Bit (0.13) listens to tcp and forwards to a Fluent instance (td-agent 3.2). Fluent will push it to rabbitmq. The basic process is working. Fluent Bit ...
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systemd and launching docker containers

So I am new to docker and wanted to start up a logspout docker container on server start up so I thought i would just chuck in a systemd start up file: [Unit] Description=Logspout GELF Container ...
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How to retrieve logs from AWS EC2 and Docker containers fail-proof?

Currently, we have the following setup: Multiple AWS EC2 machines, some which have a Docker Container running, some are dockerless. To retrieve Syslogs, webserver logs (Apache) and application logs, ...
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td-agent shared key mismatch between servers

I am trying to set encrypted logs with td-agent between two machines. I have followed the examples from the official documentation of fluentd however i am stuck in a very weird situation. The client ...
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How to config Zabbix item read data from port and create graphs?

I am new to Zabbix. I send data from fluentd client to zabbix server port 10050. My question is How should I config Zabbix item to read this data from port and generate graph for it. My data is like ...
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fluentd services die immediately after they start up

Please excuse the naivety in my question, but this is not a subject I know much about at present. My company is currently running kubernetes-managed fluentd processes to push logs to logstash. These ...
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Consuming multiline json in fluentd

I am new to fluentd. I have applications that run in Docker containers. They are Java apps that log in JSON format. The JSON messages are usually split over multiple lines. I would like to use the ...
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using google fluentd to log from compute engine instance in google cloud

I got a problem with the logging agent from Google Cloud. What i wanted was to use the google-fluentd (based on fluentd) on a webserver to collect the logs and sent it to Stackdriver Logging Api. ...
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How to specify the log tag from docker compose on google logging?

In my docker compose file, I can specify the logging driver as a "fluentd" and by default, it pushes the log to the listener of google-fluentd on port 24224 I can see the log appear on the logging ...
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Monitoring Cassandra Server Logs?

I've done some searching and have not found any examples of people using something like FluentD to forward Cassandra log file data (system.log) to a log indexer. Is this something any is doing? If ...
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Microsoft OMSAgent Listens on TCP port 16001

I have installed the Microsoft OMSAgent (on Linux). Now I see that it listens on TCP port 16001. Neither the documentation nor grepping through the Sourcecode gave some hints why. Anyone got an ...
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How to address container for logging using docker-compose

A container described in docker-compose.yml uses logging extension to send log to a fluentd container. version: "2" services: fluentd: image: fluent/fluentd:v0.14.8 container_name: ...
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Fluentd elasticsearch comprssion

I forward logs from app servers with fluentd (type tail) to elasticsearch server. Do not understand the following: Can I enable for reducing traffic the compression transmitted logs with type tail ...
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How to split a single record to multiple records in fluentd?

I would like to ask regarding to fluentd. My fluentd versions is below. td-agent-2.1.5-0.x86_64 fluentd 0.10.61 I now have a tail input plugin using multiple line format which parses multiple lines ...
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fluentd missing region error

i want to fetch cloudwatch logs. I installed cloudwatch input plugin and configured the config file of td-agent. but im getting the error as "unexpected error error_class=aws::errors::...
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How to maximize utilization of fluentd server?

I have a fluentd server that is processing an average of 1000 req/s. This server is composed by 32 cpus. In this server are running 32 fluentd docker containers with the same configuration. The entry ...
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logstash-forward equivalent for fluentd?

Is there something equivalent to logstash-forwarder that can ship logfiles to fluentd? I am trying to send log files from an application to a remote fluentd but have not seen whether this is ...
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fluentd modular configuration

Is there any way to setup fluentd/td-agent in a way that it's configuration will be modular? I know there is @include directive but this works only if every time I add something new I modify main td-...
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Fluentd not writing apache access log to mongodb

I'm following the instructions from this link to write apache access logs to mongo db- http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/apache-to-mongodb. But nothing is getting written to mongo DB. I'm checking ...
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How to collect logs for statistics in site?

I want to collect logs from nginx ( several servers, 1 000 000 lines in logs for minute for all servers ) to central stat server for statistics processing. I see 2 variants: write logs to local log ...
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Configuring Logrotate for Fluentd files. Necessary?

I have the following fluent.conf <source> type forward </source> <source> type monitor_agent port 24220 </source> # Listen DRb for debug <source> type ...
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Forward linux logs to fluentd on linux

On one VM I have this in /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf *.* @192.168.29.1:42185 # Default rules for rsyslog. On the vm with fluentd I have this: I have this in /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf <...
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fluent configuration not working

I have setup fluent with elasticsearch and Kibana with nginx. I followed the instruction and when I go to http:/192.168.10.25:8888 I get the following message 400 Bad Request 'json' or 'msgpack' ...
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Installing fluentd / Kibana / Elastic Search on Suse Enterprise Linux 11

I have successfully installed the recommended fluentd stack ( fluentd, Kibana, Elastic Search ) on a Centos 6 virtual machine. But our production environment is all Suse Enterprise Linux 11. I am ...