The document discusses the past and future of Fluentd, highlighting its continuous development since its initial release in June 2011. The recent release of version 0.14 introduced several new features, including improved label handling and configurable logging options. Future prospects for Fluentd include advanced back pressure management, schema validation, and centralized configuration management.

1. Past & Future of Fluentd
Sadayuki Furuhashi
Founder & Software Architect
Fluentd meetup 2016 Summer

2. The initial release of Fluentd
Release 0.9.0 - 2011/06/20
* First release

3. Fluentd is active
for 5 years!

5. continuously active

6. continuously active
Even more active recently

7. continuously active
Even more active recently

8. continuously active
Even more active recently
= Fluentd has robust OSS community

9. continuously active
Even more active recently
= Fluentd has robust OSS community
= Fluentd is growing

10. What’s new in v0.14?
• Moris and repeatedly will talk today.

11. New major version
v0.14.0
released yesterday.

12. Past: since v0.12.0
• <label>
• @ERROR label
• <filter>
• Configurable at-most-once & at-least-once
• TCP heartbeat & DNS round robin support
• v1 config format
• @log_level per plugin
• fluentd-ui
• buffer_queue_full_action :block | :drop_oldest_chunk
• …

13. Future: what do you imagine?

14. Future: what do you imagine?
• Advanced back pressure
• PubSub & pull forward
• Compressed buffer
• Distributed buffer
• Service plugins
• Schema-validated logging
• Centralized config manager
• …

15. One more thing…

18. Q & A?
Thank You!
Sadayuki Furuhashi