Performance Optimization and Architecture of iLogTail for High‑Scale Log Collection
Didi replaced its legacy agent with Alibaba’s open‑source iLogTail, re‑architected it to use a shared thread‑pool and SIMD‑accelerated parsing, rewrote critical plugins in C++ and added robust Kafka retry logic, achieving over twice the throughput while cutting CPU usage by more than half and maintaining near‑zero latency at massive scale.