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Fluentd Graduation Application
Fluentd project has been in incubation for more than two years. The following application links to the required information to become a graduated project plus some additional information about it growth.
Fluentd Adoption and Ecosystem
In terms of adoption, It's hard to measure the real numbers of deployments of Fluentd, but based in the public statistics considering only our own Docker images, in the last years we see more than 48 million pulls.
As a reference of adoption by known companies, we can see that Fluentd plays an important role in the following production environments:
- Google Cloud Platform Logging Agent: Fluentd is packaged and called google-fluentd. The official agent for GCP which comes with Stackdriver integration right out of the box.
- Microsoft Azure Log Analytics: Fluentd is the default agent for OMS to collect metrics and logs from Azure systems, the packaged solution is called OMS Agent.
- Redhat / OpenShift and Aggregated Logging: Fluentd is the default solution for aggregated logging through the combination of other components like Elasticsearch and Kibana (known as E__F__K stack)
Understanding Fluentd and it Ecosystem
Fluentd have a different ecosystem model than other projects, it's composed by a small and stable code base and most of the functionalities are available through plugins which can be: inputs, filters, parsers, buffers and outputs.
Most of contributions to Fluentd happens through the implementation of plugins, where the majority of them (> 900) are maintained by different companies and individuals. Since the nature of Fluentd language in Ruby and C, these extensions are available through the common Ruby Gems channels and Fluentd offers a built-in tool to install any plugin available.
note: during the last year we have seen a 50% decline of the number of companies contributing to the code base (Fluentd core), while at the same time a huge increase in the number of contributions to it ecosystem through plugins.
Progress since joining CNCF as an incubation project on December 2016
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Fluentd v1.0 released on December 2017 (announced at KubeCon North America)
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Fluentd Code Base
- 75 Official releases (today we are at v1.4.1)
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New Fluentd plugins hosted in our Github organization
- Prometheus Output: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-plugin-prometheus
- NodeJS Output: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-logger-node/
- Kafka Output: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-plugin-kafka
- Splunk Output: https://github.com/fluent/fluent-plugin-splunk
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Fluentd Plugins published by the community
- Total as of today: 941
- Plugins updated since November 2016 (CNCF Incubation): 917
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Community
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Slack: on January 2017 an average of 11 new members joined, as of July 2018 we have an average of 23 new members per week.
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Github Stars: 7500 as of today
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To graduate from inception or incubating status, or for a new project to join as a graduated project, a project must meet the incubating stage criteria plus:
Have committers from at least two organizations.
- Naotoshi Seo, DeNA
- Okkez, Clearcode
- Hiroshi Hatake, Clearcode
- Masahiro Nakagawa, Treasure Data
- Satoshi Tagomori, Treasure Data
Have achieved and maintained a Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge.
https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1189
Adopt the CNCF Code of Conduct.
https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md
Explicitly define a project governance and committer process. This preferably is laid out in a GOVERNANCE.md file and references an OWNERS.md file showing the current and emeritus committers.
https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md