Tech Meetup Glasgow - Mastering Fluent Bit: Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry

The last time I was in Glasgow was for the Tech Meetup in July 2024. I spent the evening sharing the basics of OpenTelemetry and provided hands-on workshop content for all attendees to try out at home.

On 1 May 2025 I'm headed back to the Tech Meetup Glasgow, but this time I'm going to take them on a live demo ride with Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry!

The meetup started in the Edinburgh area, but has also expanded into the Glasgow tech community. It welcomes people with all levels of experience, even if you are starting your journey into tech as a student, boot camper, or you're thinking of starting your development career, you are more than welcome.

I'm going to be sharing an introduction to Fluent Bit pipelines and OpenTelemetry Collector, then live demo the complete integration story to showcase it from front to back.

Join me on 1 May at Civic House, Glasgow for this free event featuring two talks on tech with soft drinks and pizza. My planned talk is as follows:

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 it to storage for later usage.

The schedule is roughly the same each time and as of this writing I'm not if I'm speaking first or second:

• 18:00 - 18:30, Drinks and Pizza
• 18:30 - 18:45, Opening
• 18:45 - 19:15, Talk 1
• 19:15 - 19:30, Break
• 19:30 - 20:00, Talk 2
• 20:00 - 20:15, Closing
• 20:15, Drinks

Looking forward to seeing everyone again in Glasgow in May!