Cloud Native London Meetup: Mastering Fluent Bit - Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry

Back on 7 Aug 2024 I was to speak at the Cloud Native London meetup, having been given the opportunity to present due to a speaker canceling at the last minute. I really like the organization and the consistently high volume of smart attendees to test out my ideas, so I was really excited to share an integration story with them about Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.

Instead, there was an evacuation of the area due to expected riots in the UK and the event was cancelled.

Fast-forward, it's now finally going to happen on 7 May 2025 with a more polished version than I would have brought back in the late summer of 2024. 

As the organizers posted on their meetup site this week:

Welcome to our May Cloud Native London meetup! Join us to hear from our two fantastic speakers and network with your fellow techies over pizza and drinks, or alternatively chat and follow along on Youtube!

6:00 Pizza and drinks

6:30 Welcome

6:45 Eric D. Schabell, Chronosphere (Mastering Fluent Bit: Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry)

7:15 Ashish Rajan, Kaizenteq (Talk TBC)

7:45 Wrap up

As you can see my talk will cover the following:

Mastering Fluent Bit: Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry

It’s time you stopped letting your telemetry data pressure your budgets and get in the way of solving issues with agility! No more I say! Take back control of your telemetry data as we guide you through the open source project Fluent Bit. Learn how to manage your telemetry data from source to destination using the pipeline phases covering collection, parsing, aggregation, transformation, and forwarding from any source to any destination. Buckle up for a fun ride as you learn by exploring how telemetry pipelines work, how to set up your first pipeline, and exploring several common use cases that Fluent Bit helps solve as you integrate with OpenTelemetry collectors in your organization. All this backed by a self-paced, hands-on workshop that attendees can pursue at home after this session (https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-fluentbit).

Talk includes 15 mins of live demoing the following integration phases:

• collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, enriching and securing, then passing to output destination.
• exposing Fluent Bit collected data as metrics endpoint, collecting, and displaying with Prometheus.
• collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, putting into OpenTelemetry (OTLP) format, then passing to output destination.
• collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, putting into OpenTelemetry (OTLP) format, then passing to OpenTelemetry Collector.
• collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, putting into OpenTelemetry (OTLP) format, then passing to OpenTelemetry Collector, finally sending to storage for later usage.

So be sure to mark your calendar and I'm looking forward to finally sharing this run story with you all in London on 7th of May!