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.

Single line install

Fluent Bit provides an installation script to use for most Linux targets. This will always install the most recently released version.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluent/fluent-bit/master/install.sh | sh

This is a convenience helper and should always be validated prior to use. 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.

Updated key from March 2022

For the 1.9.0 and 1.8.15 and later releases, the GPG key has been updated. Ensure this new one is added.

The GPG Key fingerprint of the new key is:

C3C0 A285 34B9 293E AF51  FABD 9F9D DC08 3888 C1CD
Fluentbit releases (Releases signing key) <[e-mail]>

The previous key is still available and might be required to install previous versions.

The GPG Key fingerprint of the old key is:

F209 D876 2A60 CD49 E680 633B 4FF8 368B 6EA0 722A

Refer to the supported platform documentation to see which platforms are supported in each release.

Install

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

   sudo yum install fluent-bit

2. 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.