Logship Agent

The Logship Agent is a powerful data collection tool that serves as a fundamental component in the Logship ecosystem. Designed to streamline the process of gathering and forwarding log data, this open-source agent provides a flexible and efficient solution for collection of observability data in various environments. Deployed alongside your services, you can easily configure detailed aggregation from multiple data sources (e.g. metrics, logs, traces) to be uploaded into your logship instance.

You can check out the source on Github at https://github.com/logship-io/logship-agent or head to the next section to start collecting.

Key features

• Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, containers; supports ETW, journald, performance counters, and custom UDP inputs.
• Resilient buffering: local queue with backpressure controls to protect your services.
• Secure by default: account scoping and TLS-friendly endpoints.

Typical deployment topologies

• Sidecar per service: ideal for containerized apps needing isolated configs.
• Node-level daemon: collect host metrics and forward multi-tenant data to Logship.
• Edge gateways: aggregate traffic over constrained links using interval batching.