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 1.6.10:
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To check the integrity, use Get-FileHash
commandlet on PowerShell.
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.
The ZIP package contains the following set of files.
Now, launch cmd.exe or PowerShell on your machine, and execute fluent-bit.exe
as follows.
If you see the following output, it's working fine!
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.
Windows Service Support
Windows services are equivalent to "daemons" in UNIX (i.e. long-running background processes). Since v1.5.0, Fluent Bit has the native support for Windows Service.
Suppose you have the following installation layout:
To register Fluent Bit as a Windows service, you need to execute the following command on Command Prompt. Please be careful that a single space is required after binpath=
.
Now Fluent Bit can be started and managed as a normal Windows service.
To halt the Fluent Bit service, just execute the "stop" command.
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