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High Performance Log and Metrics Processor |
Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics Processor and Forwarder for Linux, OSX, Windows and BSD family operating systems. It has been made with a strong focus on performance to allow the collection of events from different sources without complexity.
- High Performance
- Data Parsing
- Metrics Collection (Prometheus 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 80 built-in plugins available
- Extensibility
- Write any input, filter or output plugin in C language
- 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 sub-project under the umbrella of Fluentd, it's licensed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0. This project was originally created by Treasure Data and is currently a vendor neutral and community driven project.