Fluent Bit v2.1 Documentation

High Performance Telemetry Agent for Logs, Metrics and Traces

Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Telemetry Agent for Logs, Metrics, and Traces for Linux, macOS, Windows, and BSD family operating systems. It has been made with a strong focus on performance to allow the collection and processing of telemetry data from different sources without complexity.

Features

• High Performance: High throughput with low resources consumption

• Data Parsing

  • Convert your unstructured messages using our parsers: JSON, Regex, LTSV and Logfmt

• Metrics Support: Prometheus and OpenTelemetry 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 100 built-in plugins are available

  • Extensibility

    • Write any input, filter or output plugin in C language

    • WASM: WASM Filter Plugins or WASM Input Plugins

    • 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, Fluentd and CNCF

Fluent Bit is a CNCF graduated sub-project under the umbrella of Fluentd. Fluent Bit is licensed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0.

Fluent Bit was originally created by Eduardo Silva. As a CNCF-hosted project, it is a fully vendor-neutral and community-driven project.