Amazon Linux

Fluent Bit is distributed as the fluent-bit package and is available for Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023. The following architectures are supported:

• x86_64

• aarch64 / arm64v8

Install on Amazon EC2

To install Fluent Bit and related AWS output plugins on Amazon Linux 2 on EC2 using AWS Systems Manager, follow this AWS guide.

General installation

To install Fluent Bit on any Amazon Linux instance, follow these steps.

1. Fluent Bit is provided through a Yum repository. To add the repository reference to your system, add a new file called fluent-bit.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ with the following content:

Amazon Linux 2

[fluent-bit]
  name = Fluent Bit
  baseurl = https://packages.fluentbit.io/amazonlinux/2/
  gpgcheck=1
  gpgkey=https://packages.fluentbit.io/fluentbit.key
  enabled=1

Amazon Linux 2023

You should always enable gpgcheck for security reasons. All Fluent Bit packages are signed.

1. Ensure your GPG key is up to date.

2. After your repository is configured, run the following command to install it:

   sudo yum install fluent-bit

3. Instruct systemd to enable the service:

sudo systemctl start fluent-bit

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

$ 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 Fluent Bit configuration collect metrics of CPU usage and sends the records to the standard output. You can see the outgoing data in your /var/log/messages file.