Fluent Bit

From any source to any destination

Fluent Bit is a super fast, lightweight, and scalable telemetry data agent and processor for logs, metrics, and traces. With over 13 billion Docker pulls, Fluent Bit is the industry standard for Kubernetes and major cloud providers, including Google, Amazon, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft.

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Why Fluent Bit?

Fluent Bit is the industry standard open source solution for routing data from any source to any destination

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Fluent Bit includes support for open standards including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, OpenMetrics, and Syslog

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An extensive plugin library makes connecting sources and destinations easy and allows you to apply complex transformations to data in flight

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Add structure to your logs with built-in parsers. Transform and filter logs, metrics, and traces before sending them to their final destinations

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Collect logs once and route to multiple destinations, including Kafka, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Splunk, Datadog, and more!

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Monitor system and process metrics from Linux, Windows,
and macOS

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Extend the power of Fluent Bit by writing plugins in WebAssembly (WASM), Golang, or Lua

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Make code/configuration changes without stopping and restarting the application

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Process petabytes of data daily with very low resource utilization. Built for cloud native environments

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Extract metric data from your logs for easier analysis and monitoring.

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Reduce troubleshooting efforts by enriching logs with K8s, AWS, Geo IP, Custom Lists, and more

Fluent Bit Academy

Fluent Bit Academy is your destination for best practices and how-to’s on advanced processing, routing, and all things Fluent Bit.

Learn about integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry, Windows, OpenSearch, and more! All available on demand.

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Get Involved

Contribute

Whether you are a seasoned professional or just getting started in open source, there are ways that you can contribute.

Discuss

Join over 11,000 other users in the Fluent Slack community to discuss all things FLuentd and Fluent Bit. Ask for help with an issue or provide guidance to others.

Attend

Join the bi-weekly community meetings hosted by Fluent Bit maintainers to discuss issues or just listen in.

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Telemetry Pipeline

FROM THE CREATORS OF CALYPTIA AND FLUENT BIT

Simplified, End-to-end Observability Pipeline

Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline, from the creators of Fluent Bit and Calyptia, streamlines log collection, aggregation, transformation, and routing from any source to any destination.

This allows companies who are dealing with high costs and complexity the ability to control their data and scale their growing business needs.

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About Fluent Bit and Chronosphere

With Chronosphere’s acquisition of Calyptia in 2024, Chronosphere became the primary corporate sponsor of Fluent Bit. Eduardo Silva — the original creator of Fluent Bit and co-founder of Calyptia — leads a team of Chronosphere engineers dedicated full-time to the project, ensuring its continuous development and improvement.

Fluent Bit is a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) under the umbrella of Fluentd, alongside other foundational technologies such as Kubernetes and Prometheus. Chronosphere is also a silver-level sponsor of the CNCF.

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