FluentCon North America 2021
2021-10-12
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as the organisers put it
FluentCon is a vendor-neutral conference on log and metric collection with Fluentd and Fluent Bit. Topics include running the technologies in production, general observability, getting started, and the future of how collection is evolving.
who it's for
Fluentd and Fluent Bit operators, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, observability engineers, kubernetes operators, security engineers, DevOps engineers
topics
Fluent Bit metrics and Prometheus; Lua filters in Fluent Bit; Fluent Bit operator CRDs; logs-to-metrics conversion; Fluentd scaling and benchmarks; WebAssembly plugin for Fluent Bit; eBPF-based enrichment; Prometheus remote_write to M3; node exporter input integration; SIEM with OpenSearch and Kafka; sanitizer/masking plugin
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Fluent Bit: Past, Present, and Future | Eduardo Silva | 14m |
Fluent Bit adds first-class metrics support by shipping a symmetrics C library that implements counters, gauges, histograms and label handling, plus… | ||
| Keynote: Scaling Observability Pipelines in the Enterprise | Anurag Gupta, Eduardo Silva | 09m |
Argues that the hard part is the “first mile observability” and not long term storage and demonstrates a concrete stack: Fluentd and Fluent Bit deployed via… | ||
| Keynote: Accelerating Adoption of Fluentd/Fluent Bit With Confidence | Hisatomo Takana | 10m |
Fluentd/Fluent Bit adoption focuses on reducing operational and security pain points with two concrete contributions: Diagtool in td-agent automates… | ||
| Hands On Workshop: Getting Started With Fluent Bit and Metrics With M... | Anurag Gupta, Gibbs Cullen | 23m |
Fluent Bit now emits Prometheus/OpenMetrics natively (prometheus-format metrics added in 1.8) and this workshop shows a runnable Docker Compose stack that… | ||
| From FluentBit Operator to Fluent Operator: The Long Way to Come | Benjamin Huo | 26m |
FluentBit Operator controls Fluent Bit via Kubernetes API using six CRDs (input/filter/output/config/FluentBit/others) and implements dynamic config reloading… | ||
| Getting More Out of Lua in Fluent Bit | Pranav Marla | 25m |
Explains exact Lua filter mechanics in Fluent Bit: the three function arguments (tag, timestamp, record), the four return codes (-1 drop, 0 nop, 1 replace… | ||
| Integrating Fluent Bit Into a PaaS | Bojan Djurkovic, Dhruv Kela | 14m |
DigitalOcean App Platform uses Fluent Bit as a daemonset and a per-cluster operator to collect logs into a central system via a custom websocket plugin and to… | ||
| Why Do My Logs Suck?! A Practical Guide to Improving Your Logs | Patrick Stephens | 21m |
Couchbase moves from scattered, multi-language files to a Fluent Bit sidecar that parses and normalizes logs without changing source code, using file-based… | ||
| Scaling Fluentd From 0 to Millions of Events | TK Kubota | 22m |
Fluentd and Fluent Bit perform best with a lightweight agent at endpoints and an aggregator model that centralizes parsing, filtering and config changes… | ||
| Security Logging Use Cases: Building an Open-Source SIEM | Jonah Kowall | 33m |
Builds a practical open‑source SIEM around Fluentd and Fluent Bit and OpenSearch, showing real plumbing: Kafka for buffering, stream subscriptions instead of… | ||
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