Nginx Fluentd Module

Installation

$ ./configure --add-module=/path/to/nginx-fluentd-module

Synopsis

server {

    [...]
    
    log_format  fluentd '"ra":"$remote_addr", "uri":"$request_uri", "st":$status, "ref":"$http_referer", "ua":"$http_user_agent","rt":$request_time, "bs":$bytes_sent';
    
    fluentd_tag  $host;
    access_fluentd 127.0.0.1:8000 fluentd;
    
    [...]
}

Description

This module send access logs to fluentd via fluent-udp-plugin Log format is important and required because output is in JSON format.

Directives

fluentd_tag syntax: *fluentd_tag tag

default: *fluentd_tag nginx*

context: *main, server, location*

description: Set tag for fluentd match directive

fluentd_collector_max syntax: *fluentd_collector_max count

default: 16

context: *main

description: Set count of fluentd collector

access_fluentd syntax: access_fluentd address:port log_format | off

default: *access_fluentd off*

context: *main, server, location, if, limit_access*

description: Enable logging to fluentd

Authors

Yasar Semih Alev *semihalev at gmail dot com*