Installation of fluentd, gem or td-agent?

[Thomas]

Hi,

I'm a totally newbe in fluentd and I follow some instructions I find to install fluentd in my ubuntu 14.04 (trusty). I have some questions

1. What is the most preferable/stable installation, td-agent or via gem and why?

2. td-agent is for precise (12.04) but I was able to successfully install it in trusty (14.04) will this work normally?

The two installation instructions are found here:

1. http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/install-by-deb

2. http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/install-by-gem

Thank you

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for trying Fluentd!

> 1. What is the most preferable/stable installation, td-agent or via gem and why?

At first, please check this FAQ. FAQ has comparative table for this question.

http://www.fluentd.org/faqs

td-agent has own Ruby environment so it doesn't affect your system Ruby environment.

In addition, Fluentd is a gem. If you use Fluentd gem directly, you should write init script or

manage Fluentd with another tools, e.g. supervisord or something.

We recommend td-agent if you have no reasons. It is easy way to use Fluentd.

> 2. td-agent is for precise (12.04) but I was able to successfully install it in trusty (14.04) will this work normally?

I'm not sure. It depends on ABI compatibility between precise and trusty.

We, Treasure Data, don't have a td-agent release plan for Ubuntu 14.04.

But we will release td-agent 2 for Ubuntu 14.04 soon.

https://github.com/repeatedly/omnibus-td-agent/issues/2

Masahiro

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[Piyush Agarwal]

Hi ,

I have installed td-agent through  dmg file on my mac.

Now when I do sudo ps aux | grep td-agent.

it shows 2  process of td-agent running.

can u explain why ??

[Piyush Agarwal]

Hi ,

I have installed td-agent through  dmg file on my mac.

Now when I do sudo ps aux | grep td-agent.

it shows 2  process of td-agent running.

can u explain why ??

On Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:23:11 UTC+5:30, repeatedly wrote:

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

Hi Piyush,

See this article for more details: http://docs.fluentd.org/articles/signals