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Installing TD Agent on Macos X

You use Treasure Agent (td-agent) to import logs from your MaxOS X environment. For MacOS X, TD-agent is distributed as a .dmg Installer package.

td-agent3 is the last supported version that is available for MacOS X. We recommend using MacOS X for testing purposes only and not for production.

Install td-agent on MacOS X

Download the .dmg file and install the software.

Launch TD-agent

You can launch TD-agent with launchctl command. Make sure the daemon started correctly from the log (/var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log).

MacOS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan) introduced some security changes. When the td-agent is installed, edit the /Library/LaunchDaemons/td-agent.plist file to change /usr/sbin/td-agent to /opt/td-agent/usr/sbin/td-agent.

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/td-agent.plist

less /var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log

Your configuration file is located at /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf. Your plugin directory is at /etc/td-agent/plugin. To stop the agent, execute the following command:

$ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/td-agent.plist

Post Sample Logs using HTTP

By default, /etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf is configured to take logs from HTTP and route them to stdout (/var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log). You can post sample log records using the following curl command:

curl -X POST -d 'json={"json":"message"}' http://localhost:8888/debug.test

tail -n 1 /var/log/td-agent/td-agent.log

Uninstall TD-agent

td-agent for Mac doesn’t provide an uninstallation application.

To uninstall TD-agent from your Mac, remove these files and directories.

  • /Library/LaunchDaemons/td-agent.plist

  • /etc/td-agent

  • /opt/td-agent

  • /var/log/td-agent

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