3 years ago

Category: Data, Kubernetes

When it comes to logging, developers have to go an extra mile by inserting those log lines in their application code and also make sure their infrastructure can handle huge log ingestion to maintain scalability. Apart from debugging, logs tell us about the flow of transactions, monitor errors, generate alerts, and do Root Cause Analysis when things go haywire.

It reduces overhead on your application servers, you can effectively control and exploit log data and it eliminates the conundrum of tracking logs.

As the shipper, it forwards log data to Elasticsearch and as a collector, it collects and forwards logs to shipper.

FluentBit has a small footprint, few megabytes after installation and will collect log data and ship it to FluentD servers.