datadog-log-agent collects logs and submits them into datadog's infrastructure. This repository is no longer maintained as its code has been merged to datadog-agent, see logs-agent for more information.
logagent reads the config files, and instanciates what's needed.
Each log line comes from a source (e.g. file, network), and then enters one of the available pipeline - decoder -> processor -> sender -> auditor
Tailer tails a file and submits data to the processors
Listener listens on local network and submits data to the processors
Decoder converts bytes arrays into messages
Processor updates the messages, filtering, redacting or adding metadata, and submits to the forwarder
Forwarder submits the messages to the intake, and notifies the auditor
Auditor notes that messages were properly submitted, stores offsets for agent restarts
rake depsrake build- setup config files
./build/logagent --ddconfig pkg/logagent/etc/datadog.yaml --ddconfd pkg/logagent/etc/conf.d/