Fluentd for Small Projects @ Fluentd Casual 20120518

Fluentd ForSmall Projects Structured logging Pluggable architecture Reliable forwardingKazuki OhtaTreasure Data, Inc.@kzk_mover

Self-Introduction• Kazuki Ohta > twitter: @kzk_mover > github: kzk• Treasure Data, Inc. > Chief Technology Ofﬁcer; Founder > Original Fluentd Author @frsyuki is another co-founder.• Open-Source Enthusiast > KDE, uim, Hadoop, memcached, Mozilla, Mongo, etc. > td-agent package manager

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What’s Fluentd? time Application tag 2012-02-04 01:33:51 myapp.buylog { Fluentd “user”: ”me”, “path”: “/buyItem”, “price”: 150, “referer”: “/landing” } Storage record

What’s Fluentd? Application ﬁlter / buffer / Fluentd routing SaaS Storage Fluentd Plug-in Plug-in Plug-in

What’s Fluentd?syslogd Scribe Application File Plug-in tailPlug-in Plug-in Fluentd ﬁlter / buffer / routing SaaS Storage Fluentd Plug-in Plug-in Plug-in

Fluentd is Casual...? @tagomoris @hotchpotch 15,000,000 UU @ Cookpad∼80,000 msgs/sec

Yes. Fluentd isCASUAL

Fluentd Solves Daily Problems• Operation Problems > ssh root@bad-node && tail -f log.txt > cap deploy && pray > How many PV/UUs we have now? > How many users which did XXX and YYY?• Support > User A claimed that he bought 10 items, could you conﬁrm that?

But Your Boss Might Say....• 「Log... For What?」• 「What’s Fluentd?」• 「OK, Who uses It?」• 「We have syslogd」

Start Fluentd, Silently...• Log Everything As JSON! > TSV/CSV logs are the nightmare.• Install td-agent > rpm/deb/chef/puppet etc.• tail plugin + MongoDB > tailing existing ﬁles. > no need to change existing systems.

Figure 1: Common Log Operations Analytics Error Notify Recommendation

Figure 2: Types of Logs App Log Access Log (Apache, Rails, etc.) System Log (syslog etc.) Others

5 ways to convince your boss to use Fluentd

1) Support System• All logs are stored in MongoDB• No need to write ad-hoc log analysis scripts. before after#!/usr/bin/ruby $ mongo i-hate-mongoopen( log.txt ).each_line {¦l¦ > db.logs.ﬁnd({ user : 12345}) ls = l.strip.split user = ls[4] puts l if user == 12345} $ ruby a.rb > foo.txt

2) Realtime System Stats SCREENSHOT

2) Realtime System Stats• Librato Metrics > Realtime Stats > Realtime Alert > Graphite+Nagios as a Service > GrowthForecast+Nagios http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tagomoris/20120330/1333077746• Important Metrics.... > queue depth, # of concurrent users, # of sql queries, # of slow queries, etc.

3) Error Log Collection# waf.rb App Fluentd MongoDBbegin WAF app.run ERROR!rescue => e Fluent::Logger.post("error", {"e"=>e.to_s})end$ mongo db> db.error.ﬁnd() # Recent 10 errors

4) Error Notifications • “Semi-Realtime” Error Notifications • IRC, HipChat, Campfire, PagerDuty, AirBrake, Skype, etc. TD s Internal Chat <match app.error> type campfire room DevOpsRoom </match>

5) Log Analysis MongoDB• MongoDB App Fluentd $ mongo db TD > db.logs.distinct( uid ).count()• Treasure Data $ td query SELECT count(distinct uid) FROM logs

Conclusion.Fluentd is for... • Support System • Realtime System Stats • Realtime Alert • Error Notiﬁcations • Log Analysis • ...

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