Fluentd
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  • Configuration
    • Config File Syntax
    • Config File Syntax (YAML)
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    • Config: Common Parameters
    • Config: Parse Section
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    • Config: Extract Section
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    • Config: Service Discovery Section
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  • Monitoring Fluentd
    • Overview
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  • Input Plugins
    • tail
    • forward
    • udp
    • tcp
    • unix
    • http
    • syslog
    • exec
    • sample
    • monitor_agent
    • windows_eventlog
  • Output Plugins
    • file
    • forward
    • http
    • exec
    • exec_filter
    • secondary_file
    • copy
    • relabel
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    • stdout
    • null
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    • rewrite_tag_filter
    • webhdfs
    • buffer
  • Filter Plugins
    • record_transformer
    • grep
    • parser
    • geoip
    • stdout
  • Parser Plugins
    • regexp
    • apache2
    • apache_error
    • nginx
    • syslog
    • ltsv
    • csv
    • tsv
    • json
    • msgpack
    • multiline
    • none
  • Formatter Plugins
    • out_file
    • json
    • ltsv
    • csv
    • msgpack
    • hash
    • single_value
    • stdout
    • tsv
  • Buffer Plugins
    • memory
    • file
    • file_single
  • Storage Plugins
    • local
  • Service Discovery Plugins
    • static
    • file
    • srv
  • Metrics Plugins
    • local
  • How-to Guides
    • Stream Analytics with Materialize
    • Send Apache Logs to S3
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    • Send Apache Logs to Mongodb
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    • Send Syslog Data to InfluxDB
    • Send Syslog Data to Sematext
    • Data Analytics with Treasure Data
    • Data Collection with Hadoop (HDFS)
    • Simple Stream Processing with Fluentd
    • Stream Processing with Norikra
    • Stream Processing with Kinesis
    • Free Alternative To Splunk
    • Email Alerting like Splunk
    • How to Parse Syslog Messages
    • Cloud Data Logging with Raspberry Pi
  • Language Bindings
    • Java
    • Ruby
    • Python
    • Perl
    • PHP
    • Nodejs
    • Scala
  • Plugin Development
    • How to Write Input Plugin
    • How to Write Base Plugin
    • How to Write Buffer Plugin
    • How to Write Filter Plugin
    • How to Write Formatter Plugin
    • How to Write Output Plugin
    • How to Write Parser Plugin
    • How to Write Storage Plugin
    • How to Write Service Discovery Plugin
    • How to Write Tests for Plugin
    • Configuration Parameter Types
    • Upgrade Plugin from v0.12
  • Plugin Helper API
    • Plugin Helper: Child Process
    • Plugin Helper: Compat Parameters
    • Plugin Helper: Event Emitter
    • Plugin Helper: Event Loop
    • Plugin Helper: Extract
    • Plugin Helper: Formatter
    • Plugin Helper: Inject
    • Plugin Helper: Parser
    • Plugin Helper: Record Accessor
    • Plugin Helper: Server
    • Plugin Helper: Socket
    • Plugin Helper: Storage
    • Plugin Helper: Thread
    • Plugin Helper: Timer
    • Plugin Helper: Http Server
    • Plugin Helper: Service Discovery
  • Troubleshooting Guide
  • Appendix
    • Update from v0.12 to v1
    • td-agent v2 vs v3 vs v4
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  • List of Built-in Parsers
  • Third-party Parsers
  • List of Core Input Plugins with Parser support

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Parser Plugins

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Fluentd has nine (9) types of plugins:

This article gives an overview of the Parser Plugin.

Overview

Sometimes, the <parse> directive for input plugins (e.g. , , and ) cannot parse the user's custom data format (for example, a context-dependent grammar that can't be parsed with a regular expression). To address such cases, Fluentd has a pluggable system that enables the user to create their own parser formats.

How To Use

  • Write a custom format plugin. See

    for more information.

  • From any input plugin that supports the <parse> directive, call the custom

    plugin by its name.

Here is an example to read Nginx access logs using in_tail and parser_nginx:

<source>
  @type tail
  path /path/to/input/file
  <parse>
    @type nginx
    keep_time_key true
  </parse>
</source>

Note: When td-agent is launched by systemd, the default user of the td-agent process is the td-agent user. You must ensure that this user has read permission to the tailed /path/to/file. For instance, on Ubuntu, the default Nginx access file /var/log/nginx/access.log is mode 0640 and owned by www-data:adm. In this case, several options are available to allow read access:

  1. Add the td-agent user to the adm group, e.g. through usermod -aG, or

List of Built-in Parsers

Third-party Parsers

  • If you are familiar with grok patterns, grok-parser plugin is useful. Use > 1.0.0 versions for fluentd v0.14/v1.0.

  • If you need to parse multiple formats in one data stream, multi-format-parser is useful.

  • For protocol buffers.

  • For Apache Avro.

List of Core Input Plugins with Parser support

Following plugins support <parse> directive:

Use the to allow the invoking user to read the file without otherwise changing its permission bits or ownership.

If this article is incorrect or outdated, or omits critical information, please . is an open-source project under . All components are available under the Apache 2 License.

Input
Parser
Filter
Output
Formatter
Storage
Service Discovery
Buffer
Metrics
in_tail
in_syslog
in_tcp
in_udp
here
cap_dac_read_search capability
regexp
apache2
apache_error
nginx
syslog
csv
tsv
ltsv
json
msgpack
multiline
none
grok
multi-format-parser
protobuf
avro
in_tail
in_tcp
in_udp
in_syslog
in_http
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