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New Chapter of Fluentd
Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
Daijiro Fukuda, Kentaro Hayashi
ClearCode Inc.
Open Source Summit JAPAN 2023
2023-12-05
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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About us
✓ Maintainers of Fluentd Project
✓ Software Engineers at ClearCode Inc
✓ Driving forward Free Software and Make the
business
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fluentd and us
https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/graphs/contributors?
from=2021-01-01&to=2023-11-30&type=c
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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What’s Fluentd
Fluentd is an open source data
collector that unifies data collection
and consumption.
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Image of data collection
without Fluentd
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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What Fluentd does
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Why use Fluentd?
✓ Flexibility
✓ Scalability
✓ Open source and community
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Flexibility
✓ Over 1000 plugins for many data
sources and outputs
✓ By combining plugins, you can
achieve what you want
Main functions such as data collection, filtering, formatting, and
sending are performed by each plugin
✓ You can easily make your plugin with
Ruby
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Scalability
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Open source and community
✓ You can join to development and
make what you want
✓ Plugins are maintained in the
community
✓ https://github.com/fluent-plugins-nursery
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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History of Fluentd
2011
2016v0.9 Released by
Treasure Data
Accepted to CNCF
2017v1.0 Released
2019Graduated CNCF
project
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Needs of distribution package
✓ Fluentd is general purpose
✓ Plugins allow specific features
✓ Ruby is required to use
Users want convenience. We need
distribution package.
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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History of distribution package
Year
2011Package
td-agent v1Fluentd
v0.9
2014td-agent v2v0.10
2017td-agent v3v0.14
2020td-agent v4v1.11
2023fluent-
package v5v1.16
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Reason of rebranding
✓ The name td-agent does not associate
with Fluentd
The name of distribution package is better to associate or describe the
main software
✓ td-agent is so called all-in-one
package, not limited for Treasure Data
CDP
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fluent Package
✓ The new package name reflects
community driven development!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fluent Package LTS
✓ v5.0.2 had been released at Nov 2023
✓ Recommended for stable production
use
✓ Scheduled support lifecycle
✓ Security fixes, bug fixes for long term
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Standard and LTS
Channel
Standard version
LTS (Long term
support)
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
Support lifecycle
Every 3 months
Every 2 year or so
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Planned release cycle
https://www.fluentd.org/blog/fluent-package-scheduled-lifecycle
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Profit for updating to LTS
✓ Secure and stable operation!
Long Term Support for updates, ready for stable production use
✓ Less hustle for major update!
Advanced announcement for scheduled major update
Next major update is scheduled in April, 2025 (T.B.D.)
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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How to update from
td-agent v4
✓ In most cases, you just install Fluent
Package!
✓ Compatible with td-agent v4!
✓ In some cases, manual migration is
necessary
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Compatibility
You can still use …
✓ your config files as is
✓ /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf
✓ commands with their old names
✓ td-agent, td-agent-gem
✓ td-agent user and group
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Manual migration cases
✓ General case
✓ Specific to Linux
✓ Specific to Windows
See https://www.fluentd.org/blog/upgrade-td-agent-v4-to-v5 for details!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Manual migration: general
✓ Manually installed plugins
✓ Reinstall those plugins manually
✓ Setting of monitoring Fluentd’s log file
✓ Update the filepath
/var/log/fluent/fluentd.log
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Manual migration: Linux
✓ Environment file
✓ RHEL: /etc/sysconfig/fluentd
✓ Debian: /etc/default/fluentd
✓ Log rotate configuration
✓ /etc/logrotate.d/fluentd
✓ Systemd unit file
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Systemd unit file
Update custom unit files (If you use)
e.g. /etc/systemd/system/td-agent.service
✓ Update Fluentd bin path
✓ /opt/td-agent/bin/fluentd -> /opt/fluent/bin/fluentd
✓ Update environmental variables
✓ LD_PRELOAD: /opt/fluent/lib/libjemalloc.so
✓ GEM_HOME, GEM_PATH: /opt/fluentd/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/
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Manual migration: Windows
✓ Command line arguments (If you use)
✓ Set them again
$ fluentd –reg-winsvc-fluentdopt …
✓ Automatic start as Windows Service
✓ Enable it manually if you need
$ sc config fluentdwinsvc start=delayed-auto
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Fluentd’s log rotation setting
on Windows
✓ No longer need to use command line
argument, --log-rotate-age, --log-
rotate-size
Since td-agent v4.4.2, you can use system configuration
✓ Use system configuration
https://docs.fluentd.org/deployment/logging#log-rotation-setting
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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for Fluent Package
Command name
✓Changes
If updated from td-agent, you can still use the old name
✓ td-agent => fluentd, td-agent-gem =>
fluent-gem
✓ Linux: systemd unit name
You can still use the old name
✓ td-agent => fluentd
Windows: no automatic start
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Improvements
✓ Fluentd: Fix in_tail bug
✓ Many other improvements!
See https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md!
✓ Fluent Package: Update embedded
Ruby to 3.2
from 2.7
✓ Many other improvements!
See https://github.com/fluent/fluent-package-builder/blob/master/
CHANGELOG.md!
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New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)

Fix in_tail bug
https://www.fluentd.org/blog/fluentd-v1.16.2-v1.16.3-have-been-released
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fix in_tail bug
✓ Finally, the bug is fixed!
✓ With collaboration of many users,
the cause was found, and it is fixed!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fix in_tail bug
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fix in_tail bug
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Update embedded Ruby to 3.2
✓ You can try Ruby’s performance
improvements YJIT!
https://docs.fluentd.org/deployment/system-config#enable_jit-
experimental
✓ It is still experimental in Fluentd
Please try it and give us feedback!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fluent Package and future
✓ What happened?
✓ What will happen?
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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The fact from statistics (1)
✓ Recent Top 5 requests:
✓ United States (44.74%)
✓ Netherlands (9%)
✓ Japan (6.79%)
✓ France (5.96%)
✓ Ireland (5.58%)
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The fact from statistics (2)
Recent trends:
✓ Top 5 location Before LTS release
✓ United
States,Netherlands,Japan,France,Ireland
✓ Top 5 location After LTS release
✓ United
States,Netherlands,Japan,France,Taiwan
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The fact from statistics (3)
✓ The undesirable facts:
✓ The majority of td-agent users: 3.x
(unmaintained) or 4.x series.
✓ There is still an access for 2.x (unmaintained)
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The fact from statistics (4)
✓ The most widely used package:
✓ td-agent 4.x (aarch64) for Amazon Linux 2.
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The fact from statistics (5)
✓ GitHub Discussions low activity
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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The future
✓ No more old package users
✓ Renewal about distribution channel
(Sponsored by CNCF?)
✓ Encourage users to be a fluentd
supporter
Join GitHub discussions!
✓ Continuous release
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Wrap up
✓ Interested in and understand Fluent
Package LTS!
✓ Encouraged switching to fluent-
package LTS further more!
✓ Encouraged joining Fluentd
community!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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New Chapter of Fluentd
Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
Daijiro Fukuda, Kentaro Hayashi
ClearCode Inc.
Open Source Summit JAPAN 2023
2023-12-05
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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About us
✓ Maintainers of Fluentd Project
✓ Software Engineers at ClearCode Inc
✓ Driving forward Free Software and Make the
business
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fluentd and us
https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/graphs/contributors?
from=2021-01-01&to=2023-11-30&type=c
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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What’s Fluentd
Fluentd is an open source data
collector that unifies data collection
and consumption.
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
Powered by Rabbit 3.0.4

Image of data collection
without Fluentd
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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What Fluentd does
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Why use Fluentd?
✓ Flexibility
✓ Scalability
✓ Open source and community
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Flexibility
✓ Over 1000 plugins for many data
sources and outputs
✓ By combining plugins, you can
achieve what you want
Main functions such as data collection, filtering, formatting, and
sending are performed by each plugin
✓ You can easily make your plugin with
Ruby
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Scalability
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Open source and community
✓ You can join to development and
make what you want
✓ Plugins are maintained in the
community
✓ https://github.com/fluent-plugins-nursery
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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History of Fluentd
2011
2016v0.9 Released by
Treasure Data
Accepted to CNCF
2017v1.0 Released
2019Graduated CNCF
project
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Needs of distribution package
✓ Fluentd is general purpose
✓ Plugins allow specific features
✓ Ruby is required to use
Users want convenience. We need
distribution package.
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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History of distribution package
Year
2011Package
td-agent v1Fluentd
v0.9
2014td-agent v2v0.10
2017td-agent v3v0.14
2020td-agent v4v1.11
2023fluent-
package v5v1.16
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Reason of rebranding
✓ The name td-agent does not associate
with Fluentd
The name of distribution package is better to associate or describe the
main software
✓ td-agent is so called all-in-one
package, not limited for Treasure Data
CDP
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fluent Package
✓ The new package name reflects
community driven development!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fluent Package LTS
✓ v5.0.2 had been released at Nov 2023
✓ Recommended for stable production
use
✓ Scheduled support lifecycle
✓ Security fixes, bug fixes for long term
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Standard and LTS
Channel
Standard version
LTS (Long term
support)
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
Support lifecycle
Every 3 months
Every 2 year or so
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Planned release cycle
https://www.fluentd.org/blog/fluent-package-scheduled-lifecycle
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Profit for updating to LTS
✓ Secure and stable operation!
Long Term Support for updates, ready for stable production use
✓ Less hustle for major update!
Advanced announcement for scheduled major update
Next major update is scheduled in April, 2025 (T.B.D.)
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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How to update from
td-agent v4
✓ In most cases, you just install Fluent
Package!
✓ Compatible with td-agent v4!
✓ In some cases, manual migration is
necessary
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Compatibility
You can still use …
✓ your config files as is
✓ /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf
✓ commands with their old names
✓ td-agent, td-agent-gem
✓ td-agent user and group
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Manual migration cases
✓ General case
✓ Specific to Linux
✓ Specific to Windows
See https://www.fluentd.org/blog/upgrade-td-agent-v4-to-v5 for details!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Manual migration: general
✓ Manually installed plugins
✓ Reinstall those plugins manually
✓ Setting of monitoring Fluentd’s log file
✓ Update the filepath
/var/log/fluent/fluentd.log
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Manual migration: Linux
✓ Environment file
✓ RHEL: /etc/sysconfig/fluentd
✓ Debian: /etc/default/fluentd
✓ Log rotate configuration
✓ /etc/logrotate.d/fluentd
✓ Systemd unit file
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Systemd unit file
Update custom unit files (If you use)
e.g. /etc/systemd/system/td-agent.service
✓ Update Fluentd bin path
✓ /opt/td-agent/bin/fluentd -> /opt/fluent/bin/fluentd
✓ Update environmental variables
✓ LD_PRELOAD: /opt/fluent/lib/libjemalloc.so
✓ GEM_HOME, GEM_PATH: /opt/fluentd/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Manual migration: Windows
✓ Command line arguments (If you use)
✓ Set them again
$ fluentd –reg-winsvc-fluentdopt …
✓ Automatic start as Windows Service
✓ Enable it manually if you need
$ sc config fluentdwinsvc start=delayed-auto
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fluentd’s log rotation setting
on Windows
✓ No longer need to use command line
argument, --log-rotate-age, --log-
rotate-size
Since td-agent v4.4.2, you can use system configuration
✓ Use system configuration
https://docs.fluentd.org/deployment/logging#log-rotation-setting
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Agenda
✓ What is Fluentd
✓ History of Fluentd
✓ What’s new Fluent Package LTS
✓ Remarks of updating
✓ Major changes
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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for Fluent Package
Command name
✓Changes
If updated from td-agent, you can still use the old name
✓ td-agent => fluentd, td-agent-gem =>
fluent-gem
✓ Linux: systemd unit name
You can still use the old name
✓ td-agent => fluentd
Windows: no automatic start
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Improvements
✓ Fluentd: Fix in_tail bug
✓ Many other improvements!
See https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md!
✓ Fluent Package: Update embedded
Ruby to 3.2
from 2.7
✓ Many other improvements!
See https://github.com/fluent/fluent-package-builder/blob/master/
CHANGELOG.md!
Powered by Rabbit 3.0.4
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)

Fix in_tail bug
https://www.fluentd.org/blog/fluentd-v1.16.2-v1.16.3-have-been-released
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fix in_tail bug
✓ Finally, the bug is fixed!
✓ With collaboration of many users,
the cause was found, and it is fixed!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fix in_tail bug
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fix in_tail bug
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Update embedded Ruby to 3.2
✓ You can try Ruby’s performance
improvements YJIT!
https://docs.fluentd.org/deployment/system-config#enable_jit-
experimental
✓ It is still experimental in Fluentd
Please try it and give us feedback!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Fluent Package and future
✓ What happened?
✓ What will happen?
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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The fact from statistics (1)
✓ Recent Top 5 requests:
✓ United States (44.74%)
✓ Netherlands (9%)
✓ Japan (6.79%)
✓ France (5.96%)
✓ Ireland (5.58%)
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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The fact from statistics (2)
Recent trends:
✓ Top 5 location Before LTS release
✓ United
States,Netherlands,Japan,France,Ireland
✓ Top 5 location After LTS release
✓ United
States,Netherlands,Japan,France,Taiwan
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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The fact from statistics (3)
✓ The undesirable facts:
✓ The majority of td-agent users: 3.x
(unmaintained) or 4.x series.
✓ There is still an access for 2.x (unmaintained)
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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The fact from statistics (4)
✓ The most widely used package:
✓ td-agent 4.x (aarch64) for Amazon Linux 2.
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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The fact from statistics (5)
✓ GitHub Discussions low activity
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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The future
✓ No more old package users
✓ Renewal about distribution channel
(Sponsored by CNCF?)
✓ Encourage users to be a fluentd
supporter
Join GitHub discussions!
✓ Continuous release
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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Wrap up
✓ Interested in and understand Fluent
Package LTS!
✓ Encouraged switching to fluent-
package LTS further more!
✓ Encouraged joining Fluentd
community!
New Chapter of Fluentd - Rebranding and New Release Cycle (LTS)
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