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Fluent Bit is a fast, lightweight, and highly scalable processor and forwarder for logs, metrics, and traces, built as an end-to-end observability pipeline for cloud and containerized environments. It supports native OpenTelemetry OTLP ingestion and delivery, high-throughput asynchronous processing, zero-copy routing, and built-in enrichment to route data to multiple destinations with low CPU and memory usage. As a CNCF-graduated open-source project with over a billion deployments and a large plugin ecosystem, Fluent Bit enables configurable data collection and secure transport across hybrid environments.
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Fluent Bit : An incredibly lightweight edge collector optimal for Kubernetes environments.
Fluent Bit: The undisputed lightweight champion for Kubernetes environments
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