I am pleased to announce that Treasure Data just open sourced a lightweight Fluentd forwarder written in Go. Creatively christened as Fluentd Forwarder, it was designed and written with the following goals in mind. A simple forwarder for simple use cases: Fluentd is very versatile and extendable, but sometimes you need something simple. Fluentd Forwarder is meant to be an alternative for such case