Fluentd Deep Dive

By Kevin James

This course will teach you what you need to know about using Fluentd.

13 hours
  • 45 Lessons
  • 10 Hands-On Labs
  • 11 Course Quizzes

About the course

Have you been tasked with unifying your data collection and consumption to create more accurate and efficient data analysis? Are you interested in learning more about Fluentd and how it can help in this regard? This course will teach you everything you need to know about Fluentd, how it creates a unified logging layer, and how you can use it to iterate more quickly on your software.

  • Chapter 1 1 Lesson Introduction 3:33

    Course introduction and About the Training Architect

    3:33
  • Chapter 2 9 Lessons About Fluentd 1:06:26

    About This Section

    1:17

    A Unified Logging Layer

    3:20

    What Is Fluentd?

    2:53

    Showing Fluentd

    15:00 Hands-On Lab

    Why Use Fluentd for Logging?

    5:40

    Differences between Fluentd and td-agent

    3:10

    Lifecycle of a Fluentd Event

    4:04

    Section Review

    1:02

    About Fluentd

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 3 3 Lessons Installation 54:32

    Installing Fluentd

    9:32

    Install Fluentd

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Fluentd Installation quiz

    15:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 4 8 Lessons Configuration 1:43:27

    About This Section

    0:51

    Configuration Files

    7:15

    Config Syntax

    4:58

    Output Endpoint

    4:52

    Directives

    9:46

    Review Section

    0:45

    Fluentd Configuration Quiz

    30:00 Quiz

    Modify a Fluentd Configuration file for use with Apache.

    45:00 Hands-On Lab
  • Chapter 5 6 Lessons Plugins 1:39:49

    Types of Plugins

    4:19

    Core Input Plugins

    8:32

    Core Output Plugins

    7:36

    Using Plugins

    4:22

    Using a Fluentd Plugin to format data

    45:00 Hands-On Lab

    Fluentd Plugins quiz

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 6 4 Lessons Pipelines and Filtering 58:43

    The Filter Directive

    5:14

    Filter Plugins

    8:29

    Using filters with Fluentd

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Fluentd pipelines and filtering quiz

    15:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 7 4 Lessons Analyzing and Arranging Data 1:14:03

    Data Parsing

    9:55

    Data Formatting

    4:08

    Fluentd Data Parsing

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Fluentd Analysing and Arranging Data

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 8 4 Lessons Includes and Labeling 1:14:27

    What Are Labels?

    8:42

    The Include Directive

    5:45

    Using the include directive in Fluentd

    30:00 Hands-On Lab

    Fluentd Includes and Labelling

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 9 6 Lessons Fluent Bit 1:22:13

    What Is Fluent Bit?

    7:17

    How to Use Fluent Bit

    7:06

    What Is Built into Fluent Bit?

    3:37

    Using Both Fluentd and Fluent Bit

    4:13

    Using Fluent Bit on a Linux Server

    45:00 Hands-On Lab

    Fluent Bit Quiz

    15:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 10 3 Lessons High Availability and Load Balancing 1:10:04

    Multiple Instances

    10:04

    Fluentd and multiple instances

    45:00 Hands-On Lab

    Fluentd High availability and Load balancing quiz

    15:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 11 3 Lessons Using TLS 1:24:07

    Securing Fluentd Communications

    9:07

    Securing Fluentd communications with TLS

    1:00:00 Hands-On Lab

    Using TLS with Fluentd quiz

    15:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 12 3 Lessons Tuning and Monitoring 41:55

    Performance Tuning

    6:15

    Monitoring Fluentd Instances

    5:40

    Tuning and Monitoring Fluentd quiz

    30:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 13 2 Lessons Conclusion 3:39

    Course Summary

    2:39

    What’s Next

    1:00

What are Hands-on Labs

What's the difference between theoretical knowledge and real skills? Practical real-world experience. That's where Hands-on Labs come in! Hands-on Labs are guided, interactive experiences that help you learn and practice real-world scenarios in real cloud environments. Hands-on Labs are seamlessly integrated in courses, so you can learn by doing.

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