# Redhat / CentOS

## Install on Redhat / CentOS

Fluent Bit is distributed as **fluent-bit** package and is available for the latest stable CentOS system.

The following architectures are supported

* x86\_64
* aarch64 / arm64v8

For CentOS 9+ we use CentOS Stream as the canonical base system.

## Single line install

A simple installation script is provided to be used for most Linux targets. This will always install the most recent version released.

```bash
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluent/fluent-bit/master/install.sh | sh
```

This is purely a convenience helper and should always be validated prior to use. The recommended secure deployment approach is to follow the instructions below.

## CentOS 8

CentOS 8 is now EOL so the default Yum repositories are unavailable.

Make sure to configure to use an appropriate mirror, for example:

```shell
$ sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-* && \
  sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*
```

An alternative is to use Rocky or Alma Linux which *should* be equivalent.

## Configure Yum

We provide **fluent-bit** through a Yum repository. In order to add the repository reference to your system, please add a new file called *fluent-bit.repo* in */etc/yum.repos.d/* with the following content:

```shell
[fluent-bit]
name = Fluent Bit
baseurl = https://packages.fluentbit.io/centos/$releasever/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.fluentbit.io/fluentbit.key
repo_gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
```

It is best practice to always enable the *gpgcheck* and *repo\_gpgcheck* for security reasons. We sign our repository metadata as well as all of our packages.

### Updated key from March 2022

From the 1.9.0 and 1.8.15 releases please note that the GPG key has been updated at <https://packages.fluentbit.io/fluentbit.key> so ensure this new one is added.

The GPG Key fingerprint of the new key is:

```
C3C0 A285 34B9 293E AF51  FABD 9F9D DC08 3888 C1CD
Fluentbit releases (Releases signing key) <releases@fluentbit.io>
```

The previous key is still available at <https://packages.fluentbit.io/fluentbit-legacy.key> and may be required to install previous versions.

The GPG Key fingerprint of the old key is:

```
F209 D876 2A60 CD49 E680 633B 4FF8 368B 6EA0 722A
```

Refer to the [supported platform documentation](/manual/3.0/installation/supported-platforms.md) to see which platforms are supported in each release.

### Install

Once your repository is configured, run the following command to install it:

```bash
sudo yum install fluent-bit
```

Now the following step is to instruct *Systemd* to enable the service:

```bash
sudo systemctl start fluent-bit
```

If you do a status check, you should see a similar output like this:

```bash
$ systemctl status fluent-bit
● fluent-bit.service - Fluent Bit
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fluent-bit.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2016-07-07 02:08:01 BST; 9s ago
 Main PID: 3820 (fluent-bit)
   CGroup: /system.slice/fluent-bit.service
           └─3820 /opt/fluent-bit/bin/fluent-bit -c etc/fluent-bit/fluent-bit.conf
...
```

The default configuration of **fluent-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/messages* file.

## FAQ

### Yum install fails with a "404 - Page not found" error for the package mirror

The fluent-bit.repo file for the latest installations of Fluent-Bit uses a $releasever variable to determine the correct version of the package to install to your system:

```
[fluent-bit]
name = Fluent Bit
baseurl = https://packages.fluentbit.io/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
...
```

Depending on your Red Hat distribution version, this variable may return a value other than the OS major release version (e.g., RHEL7 Server distributions return "7Server" instead of just "7"). The Fluent-Bit package url uses just the major OS release version, so any other value here will cause a 404.

In order to resolve this issue, you can replace the $releasever variable with your system's OS major release version. For example:

```
[fluent-bit]
name = Fluent Bit
baseurl = https://packages.fluentbit.io/centos/7/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.fluentbit.io/fluentbit.key
repo_gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
```


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