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  • Fluent Bit v1.5 Documentation
  • About
    • What is Fluent Bit ?
    • A Brief History of Fluent Bit
    • Fluentd & Fluent Bit
    • License
  • Concepts
    • Key Concepts
    • Buffering
    • Data Pipeline
      • Input
      • Parser
      • Filter
      • Buffer
      • Router
      • Output
  • Installation
    • Upgrade Notes
    • Supported Platforms
    • Requirements
    • Sources
      • Download Source Code
      • Build and Install
      • Build with Static Configuration
    • Linux Packages
      • Amazon Linux
      • Redhat / CentOS
      • Debian
      • Ubuntu
      • Raspbian / Raspberry Pi
    • Docker
    • Containers on AWS
    • Amazon EC2
    • Kubernetes
    • Yocto / Embedded Linux
    • Windows
  • Administration
    • Configuring Fluent Bit
      • Format and Schema
      • Configuration File
      • Variables
      • Commands
      • Upstream Servers
      • Unit Sizes
      • Record Accessor
    • Security
    • Buffering & Storage
    • Backpressure
    • Scheduling and Retries
    • Networking
    • Memory Management
    • Monitoring
    • Dump Internals / Signal
  • Local Testing
    • Validating your Data and Structure
    • Running a Logging Pipeline Locally
  • Data Pipeline
    • Inputs
      • Collectd
      • CPU Metrics
      • Disk I/O Metrics
      • Docker Events
      • Dummy
      • Exec
      • Forward
      • Head
      • Health
      • Kernel Logs
      • Memory Metrics
      • MQTT
      • Network I/O Metrics
      • Process
      • Random
      • Serial Interface
      • Standard Input
      • Syslog
      • Systemd
      • Tail
      • TCP
      • Thermal
      • Windows Event Log
    • Parsers
      • JSON
      • Regular Expression
      • LTSV
      • Logfmt
      • Decoders
    • Filters
      • AWS Metadata
      • Expect
      • Grep
      • Kubernetes
      • Lua
      • Parser
      • Record Modifier
      • Rewrite Tag
      • Standard Output
      • Throttle
      • Nest
      • Modify
    • Outputs
      • Amazon CloudWatch
      • Azure
      • BigQuery
      • Counter
      • Datadog
      • Elasticsearch
      • File
      • FlowCounter
      • Forward
      • GELF
      • HTTP
      • InfluxDB
      • Kafka
      • Kafka REST Proxy
      • LogDNA
      • NATS
      • New Relic
      • NULL
      • PostgreSQL
      • Stackdriver
      • Standard Output
      • Splunk
      • Syslog
      • TCP & TLS
      • Treasure Data
  • Stream Processing
    • Introduction to Stream Processing
    • Overview
    • Changelog
    • Getting Started
      • Fluent Bit + SQL
      • Check Keys and NULL values
      • Hands On! 101
  • Fluent Bit for Developers
    • C Library API
    • Ingest Records Manually
    • Golang Output Plugins
    • Developer guide for beginners on contributing to Fluent Bit
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  1. About

What is Fluent Bit ?

Fluent Bit is a CNCF sub-project under the umbrella of Fluentd

Last updated 4 years ago

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​ is an open source and multi-platform log processor tool which aims to be a generic Swiss knife for logs processing and distribution.

Nowadays the number of sources of information in our environments is ever increasing. Handling data collection at scale is complex, and collecting and aggregating diverse data requires a specialized tool that can deal with:

  • Different sources of information

  • Different data formats

  • Data Reliability

  • Security

  • Flexible Routing

  • Multiple destinations

has been designed with performance and low resources consumption in mind.

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