What's td-agent?

td-agent is a stable distribution package of fluentd, which is maintained by Treasure Data, Inc.

Installation

Currently, "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / Precise", "Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / Lucid" are supported.

Ubuntu Precise

Please add the Treasure Data apt packages repository to your sources list. This command will set it up for you:

$ curl -L http://toolbelt.treasure-data.com/sh/install-ubuntu-precise.sh | sh

Ubuntu Lucid

Please add the Treasure Data apt packages repository to your sources list. This command will set it up for you:

$ curl -L http://toolbelt.treasure-data.com/sh/install-ubuntu-lucid.sh | sh

init.d scripts

/etc/init.d/td-agent script is also provided to start, stop, or restart the agent.

$ /etc/init.d/td-agent start
$ /etc/init.d/td-agent stop
$ /etc/init.d/td-agent restart

The logs are located under /var/log/td-agent. The daemon is running in td-agent user and td-agent group.

The config file is located at /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf. After its modification, please restart the agent.

Cookbook

We're providing OpsCode chef cookbook, to automate this process. Please have a look at it.

• https://github.com/treasure-data/chef-td-agent

Other Resources

The ChangeLog for td-agent is available here.

• ChangeLog

For those who are using TreasureData Hadoop-based cloud data warehousing, please refer this document.

• Continuous Data Import with td-agent