Using FluentD with the FluentForward Receiver

[lehuyv]

Hi,

I'm trying to use FluentD with the Fluent Forward Receiver, but all examples I found was using FluentBit, Here are my fluentd.conf files:

<source>
@type http
port 9880
bind 0.0.0.0
</source>
<match **>
@type forward
send_timeout 60s
recover_wait 10s
hard_timeout 60s

<server>
name OTELCollector
host 0.0.0.0
port 8006
weight 60
</server>
</match>

Here my otelcoll.yaml:

receivers:
fluentforward:
endpoint: 0.0.0.0:8006

processors:
batch:

exporters:
logging:
loglevel: debug

service:
pipelines:
logs:
receivers: [fluentforward]
processors: [batch]
exporters: [logging]

I tried a simple curl command:
curl -X POST -d 'json={"foo":"bar"}' http://localhost:9880/app.log
but can't see the output in the OTEL Collector console.

Any idea, if this is a supported use case?

Regards,

Huy

[jpkrohling]

cc @dmitryax

[dmitryax]

Looks like <server> is configured incorrectly. Set a correct collector's endpoint instead of host 0.0.0.0 . If you run both fluentd and collector locally it should be host 127.0.0.1

[lehuyv]

Thanks for the reply,
Currently, I run them as Docker Containers, under a Docker Engine that was installed on Ubuntu on WSL2 on Windows 10.
I'll try to run everthing localy and keep you posted.
Thanks again,