Amazon Linux

Install on Amazon Linux

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

• x86_64

• aarch64 / arm64v8

Amazon Linux 2022 is no longer supported.

The recommended secure deployment approach is to use the following instructions:

Configure YUM

The 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

[fluent-bit]
  name = Fluent Bit
  baseurl = https://packages.fluentbit.io/amazonlinux/2023/
  gpgcheck=1
  gpgkey=https://packages.fluentbit.io/fluentbit.key
  enabled=1

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

Install

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.