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From YouTube: What's New with Fluentd & Fluent Bit

Description

Fluentd and Fluent Bit are two highly popular open source projects for data collection and log forwarding in the realm of observability. Fluentd's flexibility and scalability have led to seamless integration with diverse applications and data sources, while Fluent Bit's lightweight and efficient log forwarding have made it a preferred choice for modern observability pipelines. But Fluent Bit can process more than just logs. The recent release of Fluent Bit v2 added major new integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, WebAssembly plugins and more.

On this episode I hosted Eduardo Silva Pereira, one of Fluentd project maintainers and creator of Fluent Bit. He also is the founder of Calyptia, the Fluent company. Eduardo shared with us the latest updates of Fluentd and Fluent Bit, as well as valuable insights into the future roadmap of these projects.

You can read the recap post: https://logz.io/blog/whats-new-with-fluentd-fluentbit/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel

Resources
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Fluent Bit: https://fluentbit.io/
FluentD: https://www.fluentd.org/
Prometheus supports OTLP: https://horovits.medium.com/83f85878e46a
PromCon '23: https://promcon.io/2023-berlin/
Kubernetes 1.27: Query node logs using the kubelet API: https://logz.io/blog/a-practical-guide-to-kubernetes-logging/#Kubernetes_1_27
Kelemetry project: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/07/27/kelemetry-global-tracing-for-kubernetes-control-plane/

Chapters
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00:00 - episode intro
02:11 - Fluentd and Fluent Bit background
09:51 - Should I choose FluentD or Fluent Bit?
13:26 - developing an active engaged OSS community
17:18 - enterprise needs and building commercial offering with Calyptia
19:54 - Fluent Bit v2 updates
29:22 - plugins, filters and processors in Fluent Bit
38:23 - A sneak peak into the planned announcements for KubeCon Chicago
44:16 - where to follow the community and Eduardo
47:43 - Prometheus now supports OTLP
48:57 - PromCon will take place in Berlin, 28-29 Sept.
50:11 - OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions is separated from the Specification
53:38 - New in Kubernetes 1.27: Query node logs using the kubelet API
54:43 - Kelemetry: global tracing for Kubernetes control plane
57:45 - episode outro

Dotan Horovits
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horovits/
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Eduardo Silva Pereira
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/edsiper
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edsiper