td-agent

This package provides a ready‑to‑install distribution of Fluentd, an open‑source data collector that creates a unified logging layer between data sources and backend systems. By decoupling producers from consumers, it enables consistent collection and routing of log streams, allowing downstream tools to process, store, or analyze the data in a common format.

The distribution includes the core Fluentd engine together with its extensive plugin ecosystem—over five hundred plugins that support a wide range of input sources and output destinations. Its design emphasizes simplicity while remaining flexible enough for large‑scale deployments, and it is released under the Apache 2.0 license as a CNCF‑graduated project.

It is aimed at developers and operators who need a reliable, extensible solution for aggregating logs from many servers or services, particularly in cloud‑native and distributed environments. The package is marked as stable and supports macOS as a core platform.