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Fluent Bit is distributed as td-agent-bit package and is available for the latest stable Ubuntu system: Focal Fossa.
Server GPG key
The first step is to add our server GPG key to your keyring, on that way you can get our signed packages:
$ wget -qO - https://packages.fluentbit.io/fluentbit.key | sudo apt-key add -
Update your sources lists
On Ubuntu, you need to add our APT server entry to your sources lists, please add the following content at bottom of your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
deb https://packages.fluentbit.io/ubuntu/focal focal main
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
deb https://packages.fluentbit.io/ubuntu/bionic bionic main
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
deb https://packages.fluentbit.io/ubuntu/xenial xenial main
Update your repositories database
Now let your system update the apt database:
$ sudo apt-get update
Install TD-Agent Bit
Using the following apt-get command you are able now to install the latest td-agent-bit:
$ sudo apt-get install td-agent-bit
Now the following step is to instruct systemd to enable the service:
$ sudo service td-agent-bit start
If you do a status check, you should see a similar output like this:
sudo service td-agent-bit status
● td-agent-bit.service - TD Agent Bit
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/td-agent-bit.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since mié 2016-07-06 16:58:25 CST; 2h 45min ago
 Main PID: 6739 (td-agent-bit)
    Tasks: 1
   Memory: 656.0K
      CPU: 1.393s
   CGroup: /system.slice/td-agent-bit.service
           └─6739 /opt/td-agent-bit/bin/td-agent-bit -c /etc/td-agent-bit/td-agent-bit.conf
...
The default configuration of td-agent-bit is collecting metrics of CPU usage and sending the records to the standard output, you can see the outgoing data in your /var/log/syslog file.

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Server GPG key

Update your sources lists

Update your repositories database

Install TD-Agent Bit