pyfluent 0.1.1

Introduction

pyfluent is a python library for Fluentd.

Notice: since this is very early release, the api may change on a future version.

The primary purpose is to provide pythonic way to transmit JSON message to fluentd.

pyfluent has these features.

• Simplicity: easy to use interface.

• Consistency: a message is not lost even if a connection is lost.

• Speed: using MessagePack and directly connect to fluentd’s in_forward plugin.

usage

Since pyfluent logging library implemented like python standard logging library, It is very easy to introduce pyfluent into existing programs.

Here is a basic usage:

import logging
import pyfluent.logging
host = 'localhost'
port = 24224
tag = 'pyfluent'
handler = pyfluent.logging.SafeFluentHandler(host, port, tag)
handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
logger.addHandler(handler)
logger.info('hello pyfluent!')