Announcement
Fluent Bit: Fast & Lightweight Data Collector for Logs, Metrics, and Traces
Fluent Bit is a super fast, lightweight, and highly scalable logs, metrics, and traces processor and forwarder. It's designed for collecting data from various sources across different operating systems and sending it to multiple destinations.
Project Introduction
Summary
Fluent Bit is an open-source data collector agent that allows you to gather data like logs, metrics, and traces from anywhere and send it to various destinations with minimal resource overhead.
Problem Solved
Collecting, processing, and routing operational data (logs, metrics, traces) from distributed systems and various environments (cloud, edge, containers) is complex and resource-intensive. Fluent Bit provides a unified, efficient solution.
Core Features
Pluggable Input Sources
Collects data from multiple sources including files, TCP/UDP, systemd, Kubernetes, and more.
Lightweight & High Performance
Offers low CPU and memory footprint, making it ideal for edge devices, containers, and embedded systems.
Flexible Output Destinations
Supports a wide range of output destinations like Elasticsearch, Kafka, S3, monitoring systems, etc.
Tech Stack
Use Cases
Fluent Bit is highly versatile and can be deployed in various scenarios for data collection and forwarding:
Container Log Aggregation
Details
Collect container logs from Docker or Kubernetes environments and route them to centralized logging platforms.
User Value
Simplifies logging in dynamic containerized environments, ensures all logs are captured and sent.
System Metrics Collection
Details
Gather system metrics (CPU, memory, disk I/O) from servers and forward them to monitoring dashboards or time-series databases.
User Value
Provides real-time performance visibility across infrastructure with minimal overhead on monitored hosts.
Cross-Platform Data Collection
Details
Collect application traces or specific event logs from applications running on various operating systems (Linux, Windows, macOS, BSD) and route them for analysis.
User Value
Offers a single, consistent agent for collecting data regardless of the underlying operating system.
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