Raspbian / Raspberry Pi

Fluent Bit is distributed as td-agent-bit package and is available for the Raspberry, specifically for Raspbian distribution, the following versions are supported:

• Raspbian Buster (10)

• Raspbian Stretch (9)

• Raspbian Jessie (8)

Server GPG key

The first step is to add our server GPG key to your keyring, on that way you can get our signed packages:

Update your sources lists

On Debian and derivated systems such as Raspbian, you need to add our APT server entry to your sources lists, please add the following content at bottom of your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

Raspbian 10 (Buster)

Raspbian 9 (Stretch)

Raspbian 8 (Jessie)

Update your repositories database

Now let your system update the apt database:

Install TD-Agent Bit

Using the following apt-get command you are able now to install the latest td-agent-bit:

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/syslog file.