Windows

Fluent Bit is distributed as td-agent-bit package for Windows. Fluent Bit has two flavours of Windows installers: a ZIP archive (for quick testing) and an EXE installer (for system installation).

Installation Packages

The latest stable version is 1.4.6.

INSTALLERS	SHA256 CHECKSUMS
td-agent-bit-1.4.6-win32.exe	0cdc765bf384eb21ddd5aa80851ab7c0a236b4cca5d827e74879988de394889c
td-agent-bit-1.4.6-win32.zip	32d791ccc737593401a369be4654cbc4dd08742098bab19fd4a7e928e990280d
td-agent-bit-1.4.6-win64.exe	6bba62f25eeb632bada98c01a47019090962bb06e7c0bfc0af4527f3bde48648
td-agent-bit-1.4.6-win64.zip	b28151b3359b6cc995495c9b47920e2d989a31b0c8970df8462818878fce1f8d

To check the integrity, use Get-FileHash commandlet on PowerShell.

PS> Get-FileHash td-agent-bit-1.4.6-win32.exe

Installing from ZIP archive

Download a ZIP archive from the download page. There are installers for 32-bit and 64-bit environments, so choose one suitable for your environment.

Then you need to expand the ZIP archive. You can do this by clicking "Extract All" on Explorer, or if you're using PowerShell, you can use Expand-Archive commandlet.

PS> Expand-Archive td-agent-bit-1.4.6-win64.zip

The ZIP package contains the following set of files.

td-agent-bit
├── bin
│   ├── fluent-bit.dll
│   └── fluent-bit.exe
├── conf
│   ├── fluent-bit.conf
│   ├── parsers.conf
│   └── plugins.conf
└── include
    │   ├── flb_api.h
    │   ├── ...
    │   └── flb_worker.h
    └── fluent-bit.h

Now, launch cmd.exe or PowerShell on your machine, and execute fluent-bit.exe as follows.

PS> .\bin\fluent-bit.exe -i dummy -o stdout

If you see the following output, it's working fine!

PS> .\bin\fluent-bit.exe  -i dummy -o stdout
Fluent Bit v1.4.x
* Copyright (C) 2019-2020 The Fluent Bit Authors
* Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Treasure Data
* Fluent Bit is a CNCF sub-project under the umbrella of Fluentd
* https://fluentbit.io

[2019/06/28 10:13:04] [ info] [storage] initializing...
[2019/06/28 10:13:04] [ info] [storage] in-memory
[2019/06/28 10:13:04] [ info] [storage] normal synchronization mode, checksum disabled, max_chunks_up=128
[2019/06/28 10:13:04] [ info] [engine] started (pid=10324)
[2019/06/28 10:13:04] [ info] [sp] stream processor started
[0] dummy.0: [1561684385.443823800, {"message"=>"dummy"}]
[1] dummy.0: [1561684386.428399000, {"message"=>"dummy"}]
[2] dummy.0: [1561684387.443641900, {"message"=>"dummy"}]
[3] dummy.0: [1561684388.441405800, {"message"=>"dummy"}]

To halt the process, press CTRL-C in the terminal.

Installing from EXE installer

Download an EXE installer from the download page. It has both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. Choose one which is suitable for you.

Then, double-click the EXE installer you've downloaded. Installation wizard will automatically start.

Click Next and proceed. By default, Fluent Bit is installed into C:\Program Files\td-agent-bit\, so you should be able to launch fluent-bit as follow after installation.

PS> C:\Program Files\td-agent-bit\bin\fluent-bit.exe -i dummy -o stdout