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Dec 30, 2025 - Learn how to run Fluent Bit as a UDP Syslog collector in Docker and forward logs to Elasticsearch with a simple Compose setup.

Sep 17, 2025 - Learn how to enable, configure and query Fluent Bit's health check API endpoints to ensure robust observability and monitoring in Kubernetes environments.

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

Enable hot reload through SIGHUP signal or an HTTP endpoint

Fluent Bit with Kubernetes enhances observability and monitoring, supporting OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. Additional resources and posts provided for further...

Learn how to monitor your Fluent Bit data pipelines

Like many developers and architects, I track the news feeds from websites such as The New Stack and InfoQ. I’ve even submitted articles to some of these...

Jul 8, 2025 - Fluent Bit has emerged as the go-to telemetry pipeline for cloud native environments. A look at a few key factors driving its popularity.

Mar 19, 2025

Fluent Bit version 4’s first major release dropped a couple of weeks ago (September 24, 2025). The release’s feature list isn’t as large as...

Nov 13, 2025 - Celebrate Fluent Bit’s 10-year journey and discover what’s new in v4.2—smarter telemetry pipelines, enhanced performance, security upgrades, and...

Create flexible routing rules

Nov 25, 2025 - Flaws in Fluent Bit could let attackers inject fake logs, reroute telemetry, and execute arbitrary code across cloud platforms.

Send logs, data, and metrics to Amazon S3

Dec 10, 2025 - Critical flaws in Fluent Bit threaten telemetry across platforms according to an advisory published by Oligo Security researchers

High Performance Telemetry Agent for Logs, Metrics and Traces

The latest Fluent Bit release includes significant enhancements, such as improved character encoding support, robust file rotation handling, and enhanced Lua...

Jul 15, 2025 - Navigating the complexities of open source telemetry pipelines with Fluent Bit.

Learn these key concepts to understand how Fluent Bit operates.

A full feature set to access content of your records.

Sep 8, 2025 - A CNCF-graduated open-source project for the collection, processing, and routing of logs, metrics, and traces with billions of downloads.

Generate metrics from logs

Apr 8, 2025 - Fluent Bit v4 is here! Discover what's new in this release and celebrate 10 years of innovation

Oct 28, 2025 - Learn about Fluent Bit's relationship to OpenTelemetry and its evolution in capturing not only logs but local metrics such as CPU, memory and storage use.

The production grade telemetry ecosystem

Performance and data safety

Kubernetes Production Grade Log Processor

Enable traffic through a proxy server using the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.

Nov 13, 2025 - By profiling the system and disabling a single unnecessary function, the AI giant recovered over 35% of its CPU cycles. A report from Kubecon.

Learn how to run Fluent Bit in multiple threads for improved scalability.

External libraries embedded in Fluent Bit

An overview of free public labs for learning how to successfully use Fluent Bit.

Oct 10, 2025 - Learn how to use Fluent Bit processors for conditional log processing to enrich and route logs for smarter observability pipelines.

Nov 5, 2025 - Learn how to monitor and alert on backpressure in Fluent Bit to prevent data loss, memory issues, and performance bottlenecks. Step-by-step guidance, metrics...

Nov 25, 2025 - Flaws in Fluent Bit could let attackers inject fake logs, reroute telemetry, and execute arbitrary code across cloud platforms.

Mar 25, 2025 - Learn how to use open standards and open source tools to collect telemetry data from any source and route it to any destination.

The exploration of using a free LLM, Grok, for building configurations reveals variability in plugin recognition and attribute identification. While LLMs show...

Jul 8, 2025 - A look at what Fluent Bit does and doesn’t do to make events useful, digging deeper into plugins, the building blocks of its functional capabilities.