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How this book is organized

The book has four parts that cover eleven chapters and five appendices. The chapters

take you through how to do things, and the appendices provide lots of reference

material and additional supporting resources and tools.

PART 1

Part 1 lays out the big ideas, detailing the architecture of Fluentd and the use cases and

opportunities Fluentd can support, as well as the prerequisites for deploying Fluentd.

We conclude with the section with the classic hands-on “Hello World” example:

 Chapter 1 starts with the basics of the elevator pitch for logging unification, tour

ing through the background and fundamental ideas behind logging and Flu

entd. We explore the different use cases and the different perspectives on

logging, and examine ELF and EFK software stacks, as well as the differences

and commonalities among these things.

 Chapter 2 goes through the makeup of a log event, how time is important (par

ticularly for distributed solutions), the architecture of Fluentd, and how this

influences decisions. Next, we cover the footprint needed to deploy and run a

basic Fluentd configuration. We conclude by following the tradition of creating

the Fluentd equivalent of a “Hello World” program.