Very nice article! I was used to this approach, but we know how painful and complex can be to test a fluentd configuration file, like if you are a beginner on the area this can be very complicated. So in order to make this easier I developed the following open-source project to help us out on this task!

• https://github.com/juntossomosmais/python-fluentd-testing

There is another approach with Ruby and you can check it here. I hope this can help the community!