Fluent Bit uses CMake as its build system. The suggested procedure to prepare the build system consists of the following steps:
CMake >= 3.12
Flex
Bison >= 3
YAML headers
OpenSSL headers
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
cmake3instead ofcmaketo 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.
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.
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:
The filter plugins allows to modify, enrich or drop records. The following table describes the filters available on this version:
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:
The processor plugins provide the capability to handle the events within the processor pipelines to allow modifying, enrich or drop events. The following table describes the processors available on this version:
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FLB_ALL
Enable all features available
No
FLB_JEMALLOC
Use Jemalloc as default memory allocator
No
FLB_TLS
Build with SSL/TLS support
Yes
FLB_BINARY
Build executable
Yes
FLB_EXAMPLES
Build examples
Yes
FLB_SHARED_LIB
Build shared library
Yes
FLB_MTRACE
Enable mtrace support
No
FLB_INOTIFY
Enable Inotify support
Yes
FLB_POSIX_TLS
Force POSIX thread storage
No
FLB_SQLDB
Enable SQL embedded database support
No
FLB_HTTP_SERVER
Enable HTTP Server
No
FLB_LUAJIT
Enable Lua scripting support
Yes
FLB_RECORD_ACCESSOR
Enable record accessor
Yes
FLB_SIGNV4
Enable AWS Signv4 support
Yes
FLB_STATIC_CONF
Build binary using static configuration files. The value of this option must be a directory containing configuration files.
FLB_STREAM_PROCESSOR
Enable Stream Processor
Yes
FLB_CONFIG_YAML
Enable YAML configuration support
Yes
FLB_WASM
Build with WASM runtime support
Yes
FLB_WAMRC
Build with WASM AOT compiler executable
No
FLB_DEBUG
Build binaries with debug symbols
No
FLB_VALGRIND
Enable Valgrind support
No
FLB_TRACE
Enable trace mode
No
FLB_SMALL
Minimise binary size
No
FLB_TESTS_RUNTIME
Enable runtime tests
No
FLB_TESTS_INTERNAL
Enable internal tests
No
FLB_TESTS
Enable tests
No
FLB_BACKTRACE
Enable backtrace/stacktrace support
Yes
FLB_MSGPACK_TO_JSON_INIT_BUFFER_SIZE
Determine initial buffer size for msgpack to json conversion in terms of memory used by payload.
2.0
FLB_MSGPACK_TO_JSON_REALLOC_BUFFER_SIZE
Determine percentage of reallocation size when msgpack to json conversion buffer runs out of memory.
0.1
Enable Collectd input plugin
On
Enable CPU input plugin
On
Enable Disk I/O Metrics input plugin
On
Enable Docker metrics input plugin
On
Enable Exec input plugin
On
Enable Exec WASI input plugin
On
Enable Fluent Bit metrics input plugin
On
Enable Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Bulk input plugin
On
Enable Forward input plugin
On
Enable Head input plugin
On
Enable Health input plugin
On
Enable Kernel log input plugin
On
Enable Memory input plugin
On
Enable MQTT Server input plugin
On
Enable Network I/O metrics input plugin
On
Enable Process monitoring input plugin
On
Enable Random input plugin
On
Enable Serial input plugin
On
Enable Standard input plugin
On
Enable Syslog input plugin
On
Enable Systemd / Journald input plugin
On
Enable Tail (follow files) input plugin
On
Enable TCP input plugin
On
Enable system temperature(s) input plugin
On
Enable UDP input plugin
On
Enable Windows Event Log input plugin (Windows Only)
On
Enable Windows Event Log input plugin using winevt.h API (Windows Only)
On
Enable AWS metadata filter
On
Enable AWS metadata filter
On
FLB_FILTER_EXPECT
Enable Expect data test filter
On
Enable Grep filter
On
Enable Kubernetes metadata filter
On
Enable Lua scripting filter
On
Enable Modify filter
On
Enable Nest filter
On
Enable Parser filter
On
Enable Record Modifier filter
On
Enable Rewrite Tag filter
On
Enable Stdout filter
On
Enable Sysinfo filter
On
Enable Throttle filter
On
Enable Type Converter filter
On
Enable WASM filter
On
Enable Microsoft Azure output plugin
On
Enable Azure Kusto output plugin
On
Enable Google BigQuery output plugin
On
Enable Counter output plugin
On
Enable Amazon CloudWatch output plugin
On
Enable Datadog output plugin
On
Enable Elastic Search output plugin
On
Enable File output plugin
On
Enable Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose output plugin
On
Enable Amazon Kinesis Data Streams output plugin
On
Enable Flowcounter output plugin
On
Enable Fluentd output plugin
On
Enable Gelf output plugin
On
Enable HTTP output plugin
On
Enable InfluxDB output plugin
On
Enable Kafka output
Off
Enable Kafka REST Proxy output plugin
On
FLB_OUT_LIB
Enable Lib output plugin
On
Enable NATS output plugin
On
FLB_OUT_NULL
Enable NULL output plugin
On
FLB_OUT_PGSQL
Enable PostgreSQL output plugin
On
FLB_OUT_PLOT
Enable Plot output plugin
On
FLB_OUT_SLACK
Enable Slack output plugin
On
Enable Amazon S3 output plugin
On
Enable Splunk output plugin
On
Enable Google Stackdriver output plugin
On
Enable STDOUT output plugin
On
FLB_OUT_TCP
Enable TCP/TLS output plugin
On
Enable Treasure Data output plugin
On
Enable metrics selector processor
On
Enable metrics label manipulation processor
On