Fluent Bit is distributed as td-agent-bit package and is available for the latest stable CentOS system. This stable Fluent Bit distribution package is maintained by Treasure Data, Inc.
We provide td-agent-bit through a Yum repository. In order to add the repository reference to your system, please add a new file called td-agent-bit.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ with the following content:
note: we encourage you always enable the gpgcheck for security reasons. All our packages are signed.
Once your repository is configured, run the following command to install it:
Now the following step is to instruct systemd to enable the service:
If you do a status check, you should see a similar output like this:
The default configuration of td-agent-bit is collecting metrics of CPU usage and sending the records to the standard output, you can see the outgoing data in your /var/log/messages file.