Fluentd Error-

[shanky1234]

Hi Team,
I wanted to run the fluentd in the form of pod & below is the yaml file for it.

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: fluentd
namespace: kube-system

---

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: fluentd
namespace: kube-system
rules:

• apiGroups:
  • ""
    resources:
  • pods
  • namespaces
    verbs:
  • get
  • list
  • watch

---

kind: ClusterRoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: fluentd
roleRef:
kind: ClusterRole
name: fluentd
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
subjects:

• kind: ServiceAccount
  name: fluentd
  namespace: kube-system

---

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
name: fluentd
namespace: kube-system
labels:
k8s-app: fluentd-logging
version: v1
kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
k8s-app: fluentd-logging
template:
metadata:
labels:
k8s-app: fluentd-logging
version: v1
kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
spec:
serviceAccount: fluentd
serviceAccountName: fluentd
tolerations:
- key: node-role.kubernetes.io/master
effect: NoSchedule
containers:
- name: fluentd
image: fluent/fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset:v1.14.6-debian-elasticsearch7-1.0
env:
- name: FLUENT_ELASTICSEARCH_HOST
value: elasticsearch.logging
- name: FLUENT_ELASTICSEARCH_PORT
value: "9200"
- name: FLUENT_ELASTICSEARCH_SCHEME
value: "http"
- name: FLUENT_UID
value: "0"
- name: FLUENT_ELASTICSEARCH_SED_DISABLE
value: "true"
volumeMounts:
- name: varlog
mountPath: /var/log
- name: fluentd-config
mountPath: /fluentd/etc/
readOnly: false
- name: varlibdockercontainers
mountPath: /u01/data/docker/containers
readOnly: true
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
volumes:
- name: varlog
hostPath:
path: /var/log
- name: varlibdockercontainers
hostPath:
path: /u01/data/docker/containers
- name: fluentd-config
configMap:
defaultMode: 0666
name: fluentd-client-conf-config

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when i tried to run the above yaml file its getting crashloopbackoff & also I have seen the logs i.e below -
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: parsing config file is succeeded path="/fluentd/etc/fluent.conf"
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-concat' version '2.5.0'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-dedot_filter' version '1.0.0'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-detect-exceptions' version '0.0.14'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-elasticsearch' version '5.1.5'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-grok-parser' version '2.6.2'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-json-in-json-2' version '1.0.2'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-kubernetes_metadata_filter' version '2.9.5'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-multi-format-parser' version '1.0.0'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-parser-cri' version '0.1.1'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-prometheus' version '2.0.2'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-record-modifier' version '2.1.0'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-rewrite-tag-filter' version '2.4.0'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-systemd' version '1.0.5'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluentd' version '1.14.6'
2022-10-29 10:57:04 +0000 [error]: config error file="/fluentd/etc/fluent.conf" error_class=Fluent::ConfigError error="Missing '@type' parameter on directive"

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can you please tell how to bypass above error.

[cospeedster]

You need to share your fluent.conf. It looks like you missed the @type detect_exceptions.