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Configure Fluentd to Collect Logs

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Christopher Adamson
Sep 29, 2025
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Fluentd acts as the logging agent in this setup, collecting logs from Kubernetes pods and forwarding them to Elasticsearch for storage and indexing. Fluentd is deployed as a DaemonSet, ensuring that a Fluentd instance runs on each node in the cluster to collect logs. Let’s learn how to deploy and configure Fluentd for this purpose.

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