Installing Fluentd

Step 1:

Install ruby

(Fluentd is written in ruby)

ruby 2.0.0 

Open a terminal and type in

     tar -zxvf Downloads/ruby-2.0.0-p247.tar.gz 

     cd ruby-2.0.0-p247

     ./configure

     sudo make install

Step 2:

Install rake

(Shortcut to install everything you need as this would also install rubygems)

    

    sudo apt-get install rake

Step 3:

Install fluentd 

         sudo gem install fluentd --no-ri --no-rdoc  

Step 4:

Running fluentd  

      #Move to directory where you wish to setup fluentd
        fluentd --setup ./fluent
        fluentd -c ./fluent/fluent.conf