= Scribe input plugin for Fluent

== Overview

This is a plugin for fluentd[https://github.com/fluentd] event collector. This plugin adds the Scribe[https://github.com/facebook/scribe] compatible interface to fluentd.

== What's Scribe?

Scribe[https://github.com/facebook/scribe] is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers, developed at Facebook.

It uses Thrift[http://thrift.apache.org/], a cross-language RPC framework, to communicate between clients and servers.

== What's Scribe plugin for fluent?

The Scribe plugin for fluentd, which enables fluentd to talk the Scribe protocol. Scribe protocol is defined as follows, in Thrift-IDL format:

  enum ResultCode
  {
    OK,
    TRY_LATER
  }
  
  struct LogEntry
  {
    1:  string category,
    2:  string message
  }
  
  service scribe extends fb303.FacebookService
  {
    ResultCode Log(1: list<LogEntry> messages);
  }

The category field is used as fluentd 'tag'.

== How to use?

fluent-plugin-scribe contains both input and output.

=== Scribe Input

Please add the following configurations to fluent.conf. This allows your Scribe client to import logs through port 1463.

  # Scribe input
  <source>
    type scribe
    port 1463
  </source>

These options are supported.

* port: port number (default: 1463)
* bind: bind address (default: 0.0.0.0)
* server_type: server architecture either in 'simple', 'threaded', 'thread_pool', 'nonblocking' (default: nonblocking)
* is_framed: use framed protocol or not (default: true)
* add_prefix: prefix string, added to the tag (default: nil)

=== Scribe Output

Please add the following configurations to fluent.conf. This allows fluentd to output its logs into another Scribe server. Note that fluentd conveys semi-structured data while Scribe conveys unstructured data, thus, 'field_ref' parameter is prepared to specify which field will be transferred.

  # Scribe output
  <match *>
    type scribe
    host scribed-host.local
    port 1463
    field_ref message
  </match>

These options are supported.

* host: host name or address (default: localhost)
* port: port number (default: 1463)
* field_ref: field name which sent as scribe log message (default: message)
* timeout: thrift protocol timeout (default: 30)
* remove_prefix: prefix string, removed from the tag (default: nil)

== For Developers

To test this plugin, please execute the following command in your 'fluent' project directory, not scribe input plugin directory.

  $ export SCRIBE_PLUGIN_DIR=../fluent-plugin-scribe                                                                   
  $ FLUENT_PLUGIN=$SCRIBE_PLUGIN_DIR/lib/fluent/plugin/ ./bin/fluentd --config $SCRIBE_PLUGIN_DIR/example.conf -v -v -v

Then please execute the sample client.

  $ ./bin/fluent-scribe-remote

== Contributors

* {Satoshi Tagomori}[https://github.com/tagomoris]
* {Sadayuki Furuhashi}[https://github.com/frsyuki]

== Copyright

Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2011 Treasure Data, Inc.
License::   Apache License, Version 2.0