FluentD to SigNoz

If you use fluentD to collect logs in your stack with this tutotrial you will be able to send logs from fluentD to SigNoz.

At SigNoz we use opentelemetry collector to recieve logs which supports the fluentforward protocol. So you can forward your logs from your fluentD agent to opentelemetry collector

Steps:

Add fluentforward reciever to your otel-collector-config.yaml which is present inside deploy/docker/clickhouse-setup
```
receivers:
  fluentforward:
    endpoint: 0.0.0.0:24224
```
Here we have used port 24224 for listing in fluentforward protocol, but you can change it to a port you want. You can read more about fluentforward receiver here.

Uncomment the exporter and pipleline for logs and make the following change in otel-collector-config.yaml

exporters:
  ...
  
  clickhouselogsexporter:
  dsn: tcp://clickhouse:9000/
  timeout: 5s
  sending_queue:
    queue_size: 100
  retry_on_failure:
    enabled: true
    initial_interval: 5s
    max_interval: 30s
    max_elapsed_time: 300s
  
  ...

service:
  ...

  logs:
    receivers: [ otlp, fluentforward ]
    processors: [ batch ]
    exporters: [  clickhouselogsexporter ]

Here we are adding our clickhouse exporter and creating a pipeline which will collect logs from fluentforward receiver, processing it using batch processor and export it to clickhouse.

Change the fluentD config to forward the logs to otel collector.

<source>
  @type sample
  sample [{"message": "my log data", "source": "myhost"}, {"message": "my log data 1", "source": "myhost1"}]
  tag sample
  rate 10000
</source>

<match sample>
  @type forward
  send_timeout 60s
  recover_wait 10s
  hard_timeout 60s

  <server>
    name myserver1
    host otel-collector-host
    port 24224
  </server>
</match>

In this example we are generating sample logs and then forwarding them to the otel collector which is listening on port 24224. otel-collector-host has to be replaced by the host where otel-collector is running. For more info check troubleshooting.

Once you make this changes you can restart fluentD and SignNoz, and you will be able to see the logs in SigNoz.

To properly transform your existing log model into opentelemetry log model you can use the different processors provided by opentelemetry. link

eg:-

processors:
  logstransform:
    operators:
      - type: trace_parser
        trace_id:
          parse_from: attributes.trace_id
        span_id:
          parse_from: attributes.span_id
      - type: remove
        field: attributes.trace_id
      - type: remove
        field: attributes.span_id

The operations in the above processor will parse the trace_id and span_id from log to opentelemetry log model and remove them from attributes.

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