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What is Fluent Bit?

Fluent Bit is an open source and multi-platform log processor tool which aims to be a generic Swiss knife for logs processing and distribution (verbatim from Fluent Bit’s documentation). For more information on Fluent Bit, refer to the documentation here.

Integrating Fluent Bit with Kloudfuse stack

Fluent Bit supports a variety of input and output plugins and parsers. For more information on the supported output plugins, see here. However, Kloudfuse stack currently supports 2 output plugins:

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You’ll now need to configure the Fluent Bit installation by modifying charts/fluent-bit/values.yaml depending on the plugin you choose to use.

DD plugin integration

Add the following content values.yaml, if you’re planning on using DD output plugin with Fluent Bit:

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All the settings/configuration up to TLS on are required for the kfuse stack to work properly. The rest of the settings are recommended.

HTTP plugin integration

If you’re not planning on using DD output plugin, then you can use the HTTP plugin to push the logs to kfuse stack. Add the following configuration to values.yaml for HTTP configuration.

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Currently msgpack is the only supported format for HTTP plugin. You can also not include this setting. The default format for HTTP plugin is msgpack.

Installing Fluent Bit helm chart

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You will only need to edit the values.yaml file to configure either DD or HTTP plugin. You do not have to configure both.

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