Lightning Talk: What I Wish I’d Known about Fluentd with Kubernetes - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks

Lightning Talk: What I Wish I’d Known about Fluentd with Kubernetes - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks (Beginner Skill Level)

Fluentd is really powerful, but configuring it for best performance and getting the most out of it is not easy. Bryan spent several weeks tuning Fluentd on a production Kubernetes cluster, uploading to Loggly. Highlights include: installing as a daemonset, using buffered writes, adding a syslog reader, debugging your config, and security considerations.

About Bryan
Bryan is Director of Engineering at Weaveworks, delivering deployment, observability and monitoring for containers and microservices. Previously, Bryan has worked on many kinds of systems including financial trading, factory control and bakery. Outside of work he is a father, a keen cook and a helicopter pilot. Bryan is a maintainer on the CNI project, and also works on Weave Cortex, a scaleable multi-tenant back-end for Prometheus. Previous speaking includes: at FOSDEM 2017, GoLang UK 2016, Cloud Native London meetup, Silicon Valley DevOps meetup.