Send production-shaped logs through Fluentd to the intended destination. Include bursts, malformed records, and a destination outage. Check parsing, buffering, retry behavior, ordering expectations, and whether any records are dropped or duplicated.
Filter secrets before forwarding and decide who owns plugin versions and configuration. A collector is reliable when failures are observable and storage limits are understood. Compare the recovered destination data with the source fixture instead of assuming a green process means complete delivery.
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