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Fluent Bit & Fluentd Hands-on Learning Labs

Learn how to configure and use Fluent Bit with these free tutorials using ephemeral sandbox environments.

Jump right in, get your hands dirty, and quickly learn one of the most powerful tools for enterprise observability. No setup or sign-up required.

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Fluent Bit 101: Getting Started with Configuration and Routing

Learn the basics of Fluent Bit, including how to run it from the command line and configure it to read data from a source and send the data to a different destination.

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Getting Started with Fluent Bit and Metrics with Prometheus

Explore how to collect system metrics with Fluent Bit and send them to Prometheus.

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Fluent Operator Initial Walkthrough

Use the Fluent Operator to dynamically deploy and control both FluentD and Fluent Bit automatically. Includes examples of how to deploy the Fluent Operator to send logs to tools like Loki, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.

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About Calyptia and Fluent Bit

With over a billion downloads, Fluent Bit is the industry-standard open-source engine for enterprise observability of logs and metrics, and it is included in major Kubernetes distributions, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS),  and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). It collects and processes event data from any source and routes that data to any destination–even multiple destinations–for storage and analysis. 

Calyptia was founded by the creator of Fluent Bit and we are the project’s primary maintainers. We offer Fluent Bit-based services and products for the enterprise including:

  • Calyptia for Fluent Bit — a Long Term Support edition of Fluent Bit for enterprises that require predictable upgrades and an SLA
  • Calyptia Core — a Kubernetes solution that simplifies data collection, aggregation, and routing at scale
  • Calyptia Cloud — a free, hosted solution for visualizing and optimizing your Fluentd and Fluent Bit-based observability pipelines