Azure Table Storage plugin for Fluentd

Azure Table Storage output plugin for Fluentd.

Installation

via RubyGems

fluent-gem install fluent-plugin-azure-table-storage

Quick Start

Azure Table Storage Configuration

# create free trial account
  http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/

# create table storage instance
  https://manage.windowsazure.com/#Workspace/StorageExtension/storage

Fluentd.conf Configuration

<match azure_table_storage.**>
  type azure_table_storage            # fluent output plugin file name (sans fluent_plugin_ prefix)
  account_name your_account_name      # azure table storage account name
  access_key your_primary_access_key  # azure table storage primary access key.
  table_name fluentd                  # name of the destination table
</match>

Tests

rake rspec

NOTE: requires the following:
      1) an active azure account
      2) an active azure table storage instance
      3) update spec/out_azure_table_storage_spec.rb with your
         account_name and primary access key prior to running the tests

TODOs

1) the waz-storage gem makes use of the rest-client gem, which in
   in turn uses the mime-types gem.  Fluentd, for whatever reason,
   sets default encoding to ASCII-8BIT (why not UTF-8)?
   fluentd can't start up due to the fact that the mime-type
   gem opens files using UTF-8 encoding (for default external, NOT
   default internal), which conflicts with fluentd's ASCII-8BIT encoding.

   For now, I monkey patch the mime-type gem to open the file by
   setting both the external and internal encoding to UTF-8.
   So, I'm not going to release this gem to RubyGems until this
   issue is resolved.