1. ik in action
Moriyoshi Koizumi <mozo@mozo.jp>

2. who am I?
•Freelance Engineer using Python for
the job.
•maintainer of several OSS projects
including notorious PHP
•Also a Go contributor
•http://www.mozo.jp/

3. •Developed a fluent-protocol
compatible log collector in Go
•Deployed it over a number of
embedded Windows 8 boxes in
production environment
•Managed to get it working quite
easily thanks to Go’s cross-
compilation feature.

4. ik [ai-kay]
•A humble alternative
implementation of fluentd that I am
developing with @stanaka
•https://github.com/moriyoshi/ik
•fluentd is a versatile log collector
developed by folks at TreasureData
Inc.

5. ik [ai-kay]
Record
Router
Goroutine
Supervisor
Scorekeeper
Engine
Input
Plugin
Output
Plugin
Input
Plugin
Input
Plugin
Output
Plugin
Output
Plugin
goroutine goroutine goroutine goroutine goroutine goroutine

6. features of ik
•Small memory footprint comparing
to the bare fluentd set-up
•Built-in scoreboard feature
•Can run on Windows out-of-the-box

7. Scoreboard

8. Windows

9. In the Real World
•A bunch of Windows tablets running
a .NET application embedded in
consoles
•Needed to see how it is going
remotely
•fluentd was already being used in
production, wanted to stick to it

10. In the Real World
fluentd
stunnel
Internet
stunnel
ik
.NET application
stunnel
ik
.NET application
stunnel
ik
.NET application
stunnel
ik
.NET application

11. Components
•fluentd
for log collection
•stunnel
for secure connection
•ik
as a log transfer agent
•NLog-Targets-Fluentd
to stream application logs to the server in fluent protocol

12. Thank you for
listening...