Build and Install
Fluent Bit uses CMake as it build system. The suggested procedure to prepare the build system consists of the following steps:
Prepare environment
In the following steps you can find exact commands to build and install the project with the default options. If you already know how CMake works you can skip this part and look at the build options available. Note that Fluent Bit requires CMake 3.x. You may need to use
cmake3
instead ofcmake
to complete the following steps on your system.
Change to the build/ directory inside the Fluent Bit sources:
Let CMake configure the project specifying where the root path is located:
Now you are ready to start the compilation process through the simple make command:
to continue installing the binary on the system just do:
it's likely you may need root privileges so you can try to prefixing the command with sudo.
Build Options
Fluent Bit provides certain options to CMake that can be enabled or disabled when configuring, please refer to the following tables under the General Options, Development Options, Input Plugins and _Output Plugins sections.
General Options
Development Options
Optimization Options
Input Plugins
The input plugins provides certain features to gather information from a specific source type which can be a network interface, some built-in metric or through a specific input device, the following input plugins are available:
Filter Plugins
The filter plugins allows to modify, enrich or drop records. The following table describes the filters available on this version:
Output Plugins
The output plugins gives the capacity to flush the information to some external interface, service or terminal, the following table describes the output plugins available as of this version:
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