Fluent Bit v1.9 Documentation
High Performance Log and Metrics Processor
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High Performance Log and Metrics Processor
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Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics Processor and Forwarder for Linux, OSX, Windows and BSD family operating systems. It has been made with a strong focus on performance to allow the collection of events from different sources without complexity.
High Performance
Metrics Collection (Prometheus compatible)
Reliability and Data Integrity
Backpressure Handling
Data Buffering in memory and file system
Networking
Security: built-in TLS/SSL support
Asynchronous I/O
Pluggable Architecture and Extensibility: Inputs, Filters and Outputs
More than 80 built-in plugins available
Extensibility
Write any input, filter or output plugin in C language
Bonus: write Filters in Lua or Output plugins in Golang
Monitoring: expose internal metrics over HTTP in JSON and Prometheus format
Stream Processing: Perform data selection and transformation using simple SQL queries
Create new streams of data using query results
Aggregation Windows
Data analysis and prediction: Timeseries forecasting
Portable: runs on Linux, MacOS, Windows and BSD systems
Fluent Bit is a CNCF sub-project under the umbrella of Fluentd, it's licensed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0. This project was originally created by Treasure Data and is currently a vendor neutral and community driven project.