Fluent Bit is distributed as the fluent-bit
package and is available for the latest
Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023. The following architectures are supported
- x86_64
- aarch64 / arm64v8
Amazon Linux 2022 is no longer supported.
Fluent Bit provides an installation script to use for most Linux targets. This will always install the most recently released version.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fluent/fluent-bit/master/install.sh | sh
This is a convenience helper and should always be validated prior to use. The recommended secure deployment approach is to use the following instructions:
The fluent-bit
is provided through a Yum repository. To add the repository
reference to your system, add a new file called fluent-bit.repo
in
/etc/yum.repos.d/
with the following content:
[fluent-bit]
name = Fluent Bit
baseurl = https://packages.fluentbit.io/amazonlinux/2/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.fluentbit.io/fluentbit.key
enabled=1
[fluent-bit]
name = Fluent Bit
baseurl = https://packages.fluentbit.io/amazonlinux/2023/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.fluentbit.io/fluentbit.key
enabled=1
You should always enable gpgcheck
for security reasons. All Fluent Bit packages
are signed.
For the 1.9.0 and 1.8.15 and later releases, the GPG key has been updated. Ensure this new one is added.
The GPG Key fingerprint of the new key is:
C3C0 A285 34B9 293E AF51 FABD 9F9D DC08 3888 C1CD
Fluentbit releases (Releases signing key) <[email protected]>
The previous key is still available and might be required to install previous versions.
The GPG Key fingerprint of the old key is:
F209 D876 2A60 CD49 E680 633B 4FF8 368B 6EA0 722A
Refer to the supported platform documentation to see which platforms are supported in each release.
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After your repository is configured, run the following command to install it:
sudo yum install fluent-bit
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Instruct
systemd
to enable the service:
sudo systemctl start fluent-bit
If you do a status check, you should see a similar output like this:
$ systemctl status fluent-bit
● fluent-bit.service - Fluent Bit
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fluent-bit.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2016-07-07 02:08:01 BST; 9s ago
Main PID: 3820 (fluent-bit)
CGroup: /system.slice/fluent-bit.service
└─3820 /opt/fluent-bit/bin/fluent-bit -c /etc/fluent-bit/fluent-bit.conf
...
The default Fluent Bit configuration collect metrics of CPU usage and sends the
records to the standard output. You can see the outgoing data in your
/var/log/messages
file.