Fluentd & Fluent Bit
The Production Grade Ecosystem
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The Production Grade Ecosystem
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Logging and data processing in general can be complex, and at scale a bit more, that's why was born. Fluentd has become more than a simple tool, it has grown into a fullscale ecosystem that contains SDKs for different languages and sub-projects like .
On this page, we will describe the relationship between the and open source projects, as a summary we can say both are:
Licensed under the terms of Apache License v2.0
Hosted projects by the
Production Grade solutions: deployed thousands of times every single day, millions per month.
Community driven projects
Widely Adopted by the Industry: trusted by all major companies like AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and hundred of others.
Originally created by .
Both projects share a lot of similarities, is fully designed and built on top of the best ideas of architecture and general design. Choosing which one to use depends on the end-user needs.
The following table describes a comparison in different areas of the projects:
Scope
Containers / Servers
Embedded Linux / Containers / Servers
Language
C & Ruby
C
Memory
~40MB
~650KB
Performance
High Performance
High Performance
Dependencies
Built as a Ruby Gem, it requires a certain number of gems.
Zero dependencies, unless some special plugin requires them.
Plugins
More than 1000 plugins available
Around 70 plugins available
License
Both and can work as Aggregators or Forwarders, they both can complement each other or use them as standalone solutions.