macOS
Fluent Bit is compatible with latest Apple macOS system on x86_64 and Apple Silicon architectures.
Installation Packages
The packages can be found here: https://packages.fluentbit.io/macos/
For the next steps, you will need to have installed in your system. If is not there, you can install it with the following command:
Installing from Homebrew
The Fluent Bit package on Homebrew is not officially supported, but should work for basic use cases and testing. It can be installed using:
Compile from Source
Install build dependencies
Run the following brew command in your terminal to retrieve the dependencies:
Get the source and build it
Grab a fresh copy of the Fluent Bit source code (upstream):
Optionally, if you want to use a specific version, just checkout to the proper tag. If you want to use v1.8.13 just do:
In order to prepare the build system, we need to expose certain environment variables so Fluent Bit CMake build rules can pick the right libraries:
Change to the build/ directory inside the Fluent Bit sources:
Build Fluent Bit. Note that we are indicating to the build system "where" the final binaries and config files should be installed:
Install Fluent Bit to the directory specified above. Note that this requires root privileges due to the directory we will write information to:
The binaries and configuration examples can be located at /opt/fluent-bit/.
Create macOS installer from source
Grab a fresh copy of the Fluent Bit source code (upstream):
Optionally, if you want to use a specific version, just checkout to the proper tag. If you want to use v1.9.2 just do:
In order to prepare the build system, we need to expose certain environment variables so Fluent Bit CMake build rules can pick the right libraries:
And then, creating the specific macOS SDK target (For example, specifying macOS Big Sur (11.3) SDK environment):
Change to the build/ directory inside the Fluent Bit sources:
Build the Fluent Bit macOS installer.
Then, macOS installer will be generated as:
Finally, fluent-bit-<fluent-bit version>-(intel or apple).pkg will be generated.
The created installer will put binaries at /opt/fluent-bit/.
Running Fluent Bit
To make the access path easier to Fluent Bit binary, in your terminal extend the PATH variable:
Now as a simple test, try Fluent Bit by generating a simple dummy message which will be printed to the standard output interface every 1 second:
You will see an output similar to this:
To halt the process, press ctrl-c in the terminal.