We’re pleased to announce the general availability of support for Ubuntu OS and Fluentd output plugin in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Logging. The OCI Logging service is a highly scalable and fully managed logging platform that allows you to seamlessly ingest, analyze, and act on all your log data in one unified experience.

Support for Ubuntu OS

OCI Logging provides unified agents to ingest events from your applications with control over which logs you want to collect, how to parse them, and more. Today, we already support agents for the following operating systems: Oracle Linux (Versions 7 and 8), CentOS (Versions 7 and 8), and Windows Server (2012 R2, 2016 and 2019). Now, as OCI Ampere A1 Compute service has extended its support for Ubuntu OS, OCI Logging is also providing agents for the following Ubuntu OS versions:

To know more about how to manage and install these agents on your instances, see the documentation.

Fluentd output plugin

As part of our commitment to the open source community and putting customers first, we have launched a Fluentd-based output plugin for OCI Logging. Fluentd is an open source data collector for a unified logging layer, and its output plugins enable shipping logs to set destinations. OCI Logging output plugin opens a range of use cases, such as the following examples:

  • User-managed plugin: Providing an alternate option to OCI Logging’s unified agent, where the user has the control to manage and configure the Fluentd output plugin rather than having OCI-managed agent. Today, if you want to make any unsupported changes to the unified agent’s configuration, it gets overwritten by OCI during agent updates, and you need to make those changes again. To overcome this scenario, you can use the output plugin instead of the unified agent to set up and manage your own configuration.
  • Fluentd ecosystem integration: The Fluentd community shares and supports over 100 plugins for its ecosystem. Now, you can use the OCI Logging output plugin with your choice of input plugin, parser plugin, or any other Fluentd-based plugin to enable a custom workflow.

The open source output plugin is available in Ruby Gem as “fluent-plugin-oci-logging” and on GitHub.

Get started today!

You can find Logging under Solutions and Platform in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console menu. Logging is accessible through the Console, SDK, CLI, REST API, and Terraform. It’s available in all commercial regions, with Government regions coming soon. For more details, see the Logging documentation and FAQ.

We also encourage you to also learn about Service Connector Hub, which allows you to move and take action on your logs. To try Service Connector Hub and Logging services for yourself, sign up for the Oracle Cloud Free Tier or sign in to your account.