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High Performance Telemetry Agent for Logs, Metrics and Traces |
Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Telemetry Agent for Logs, Metrics, and Traces for Linux, macOS, Windows, and BSD family operating systems. It has been made with a strong focus on performance to allow the collection and processing of telemetry data from different sources without complexity.
- High Performance: High throughput with low resources consumption
- Data Parsing
- Metrics Support: Prometheus and OpenTelemetry compatible
- Reliability and Data Integrity
- Backpressure Handling
- Data Buffering in memory and file system
- Networking
- Security: built-in TLS/SSL support
- Asynchronous I/O
- Pluggable Architecture and Extensibility: Inputs, Filters and Outputs
- More than 100 built-in plugins are available
- Extensibility
- Write any input, filter or output plugin in C language
- WASM: WASM Filter Plugins or WASM Input Plugins
- Bonus: write Filters in Lua or Output plugins in Golang
- Monitoring: expose internal metrics over HTTP in JSON and Prometheus format
- Stream Processing: Perform data selection and transformation using simple SQL queries
- Create new streams of data using query results
- Aggregation Windows
- Data analysis and prediction: Timeseries forecasting
- Portable: runs on Linux, macOS, Windows and BSD systems
Fluent Bit is a CNCF graduated sub-project under the umbrella of Fluentd. Fluent Bit is licensed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0.
Fluent Bit was originally created by Eduardo Silva. As a CNCF-hosted project, it is a fully vendor-neutral and community-driven project.