Fluentd v1 is available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. It's packaged by Fluentd Project and Calyptia respectively as:
Docker images, Kubernetes DaemonSet and Ruby gems are also available from the community.
| Platform | Package or Installer |
|---|---|
 Container |
Docker image at Docker Hub |
 Container Orchestration |
Kubernetes DaemonSet for Fluentd |
 Ruby |
Install by Ruby Gem (* ruby expert-use only) |
If you're looking for more lightweight forwarder for edge devices / servers / containers, use Fluent Bit, an open source data collector specifically designed for data forwarding. Fluent Bit is more efficient in terms of CPU / Memory usage, but has limited features. The following table list the available Linux packages for different distributions. Note that Fluent Bit packaged is known as td-agent-bit.
Visit fluent-bit official site and documentation.
Want to learn the basics of Fluentd? Check out these pages.
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Fluentd is a hosted project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). All components are available under the Apache 2 License.
