Google Cloud Logging plugin for fluentd¶ ↑

fluent-plugin-google-cloud gem includes two plugins:

that embeds insertIds into log entries to guarantee order and uniqueness.

which sends logs to the Stackdriver Logging API.

This is an official Google Ruby gem.

Installation¶ ↑

This gem is hosted at RubyGems.org and can be installed using:

$ gem install fluent-plugin-google-cloud

Installing google-fluentd will also install and configure the gem.

To embed insertIds into log entries, specify @type add_insert_ids in a filter clause of your Fluentd configuration file, for example:

<filter **>
  @type add_insert_ids
  insert_id_key my_insert_id_field_name # Optional.
</filter>

insert_id_key can be used to customize the insertId field name.

To send logs to Google Cloud Logging, specify @type google_cloud in a match clause of your Fluentd configuration file, for example:

<match **>
  @type google_cloud
</match>

See detailed instructions on how to configure this output plugin here. The plugin uses Google Application Default Credentials for authorization - for additional information see here.