# systemd input plugin for [Fluentd](http://github.com/fluent/fluentd)

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## Overview

**systemd** input plugin reads logs from the systemd journal

## Installation

Simply use RubyGems:

    gem install fluent-plugin-systemd -v 0.1.0

    or

    fluent-gem install fluent-plugin-systemd -v 0.1.0

    or

    td-agent-gem install fluent-plugin-systemd -v 0.1.0

## Configuration

    <source>
      @type systemd
      path /var/log/journal
      filters [{ "_SYSTEMD_UNIT": "kube-proxy.service" }]
      pos_file kube-proxy.pos
      tag kube-proxy
      read_from_head true
    </source>

**path**

Path to the systemd journal, defaults to `/var/log/journal`

**filters**

Array of filters, see [here](http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/systemd-journal/Systemd%2FJournal%2FFilterable%3Afilter) for further
documentation, defaults to no filtering.

**pos file**

Path to pos file, stores the journald cursor. File is created if does not exist.

**read_from_head**

If true reads all available journal from head, otherwise starts reading from tail,
 ignored if pos file exists (and is valid). Defaults to false.

**strip_underscores**

If true strips underscores from the beginning of systemd field names.
May be useful if outputting to kibana, as underscore prefixed fields are unindexed there.

**tag**

_Required_ A tag that will be added to events generated by this input.

## Example

For an example of a full working setup including the plugin, [take a look at](https://github.com/assemblyline/fluentd)

## Dependencies

This plugin depends on libsystemd

## Running the tests

To run the tests with docker on several distros simply run `rake`

For systems with systemd installed you can run the tests against your installed libsystemd with `rake test`

## Licence etc

[MIT](LICENCE)

Issues and pull requests welcome

## Maintainer

* [Ed Robinson](https://github.com/errm)

## Contributors

Many thanks to our fantastic contributors

* [Jesus Rafael Carrillo](https://github.com/jescarri)
* [Mike Kaplinskiy](https://github.com/mikekap)
* [Sadayuki Furuhashi](https://github.com/frsyuki)
* [Richard Megginson](https://github.com/richm)
* [Masahiro Nakagawa](https://github.com/repeatedly)
* [Hiroshi Hatake](https://github.com/cosmo0920)