Send logs to Amazon Kinesis Firehose
In order to send records into Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:
The firehose plugin, can read the parameters from the command line through the -p argument (property), e.g:
In your main configuration file append the following Output section:
The following AWS IAM permissions are required to use this plugin:
Fluent Bit 1.7 adds a new feature called workers which enables outputs to have dedicated threads. This kinesis_firehose plugin fully supports workers.
Example:
If you enable a single worker, you are enabling a dedicated thread for your Firehose output. We recommend starting with without workers, evaluating the performance, and then adding workers one at a time until you reach your desired/needed throughput. For most users, no workers or a single worker will be sufficient.
Amazon distributes a container image with Fluent Bit and these plugins.
Our images are available in Amazon ECR Public Gallery. You can download images with different tags by following command:
For example, you can pull the image with latest version by:
If you see errors for image pull limits, try log into public ECR with your AWS credentials:
You can use our SSM Public Parameters to find the Amazon ECR image URI in your region: