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Fluent Bit configuration quick reference and editor
Reduce developer friction - Configuring tools like Fluent Bit (and Fluentd)
Something that vendors like Microsoft have been really good at is reducing the friction on getting started – from simplifying installations with MSI files and defaulted options through to very informative error messages in Excel when you’ve got a function slightly wrong. Apple is another good example of this; while no two Android phones are the same, my experience is that setting up an iPhone is…
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OpAMP allows to manage our observability agents (OTel collector, Fluent Bit, Fluentd). Add to that MCP - and we have the ability to deliver conversational Ops aka ChatOps. Next step, enable ChatOps to plugin to collaboration platforms not just LLM Desktop tools
Returning to Chat Ops
A couple of years ago, we wrote about the idea of Chat Ops, why the idea is valuable and interesting (see Fluent Bit – Powering Chat Ops, Fluent Bit with Chat Ops, for example). The essence of the idea was: Using a collaboration or chat platform like Slack could ease and even accelerate the response to operational issues (as systems process more data and faster). Conversational collaborative…
Fluent Bit classic to YAML
Many of the most potent features being added to Fluent Bit are only available in the newer YAML format. At the same time Fluent Bit is celebrating its 10th anniversary, so we can be sure that are some established deployments that are being maintained with the classic format. The transition between the two Fluebnt Bit formats can be a bit fiddly. We built a tool as described in my Fluent Bit…
Fluent Bit Processors and Processor Conditions
Fluent Bit’s processors were introduced in version 3. But we have seen the capability continue to advance, with the introduction of the ability to conditionally execute processors. Until the ability to define conditionality directly with the processor, the control has had to be fudged around (putting processors further downstream and controlling it with filters and routing, etc). In the Logs and…
KubeCon Fluent Bit Release 4.2
With KubeCon North America just wrapped up, the team behind Fluent Bit has announced a new major release -version 4.2. According to the release notes, there are some interesting new features for routing strategies in Fluent Bit. We also have a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) mechanism to handle some operational edge scenarios. As with all releases, there are continued improvements in the form of…
Observations on vibe coding Fluent Bit configurations
With vibe coding (an expression now part of the Collins Dictionary) and tools like Cline, which are penetrating the development process, I thought it would be worthwhile to see how much can be done with an LLM for building configurations. Since our preference for a free LLM has been with Grok (xAI) for development tasks, we’ve used that. We found that beyond the simplest of tasks, we needed to…