# Installing Fluent Package

Fluentd is an open-source data collector on servers/containers, which lets you unify the data collection in near-realtime and consumption for better use and understanding of data.
Fluentd was conceived by Treasure Data in 2011. But, its development is maintained by the open-source community today.
Fluentd Project maintains stable packages for Fluentd and canonical plugins as Fluent Package (the package is called fluent-package), formerly known as td-agent/Treasure Agent.

For more detail, visit [Fluentd Doc](https://docs.fluentd.org/).
To connect with Treasure Data from Fluentd, install the following software:

- [TD Output Plugin](https://github.com/treasure-data/fluent-plugin-td)


The TD Output plugin is included in Fluentd's deb/rpm package (fluent package) by default.