Cloud Native Manchester: Exploring the Power of Open Source Telemetry Pipelines, Fluent Bit Edition

I was going to speak in June at the Cloud Native Manchester meetup, but due to transit strikes in my country I was unable to make the trip over to Manchester. 

The meetup is described as, "A Northern outpost for all things Cloud Native - from Kubernetes to Etcd and everything in between... If you're interested in container orchestration and all its surrounding ecosystem, then we welcome you onboard!"

I love a new meetup and was super happy to be asked to speak, especially on my favorite topic, Fluent Bit! After discussing with the organizers what to do with my cancelled speaking slot, we optioned for me coming at the next meetup to be scheduled in September. 

So let's take a look at the coming event in September, tentatively set for Sep 25.

This data will all be published on the Cloud Native Manchester meetup site once they have a sponsored location for the event, but for now, here is the session I'm going to share with you.

Exploring the Power of Open Source Telemetry Pipelines, Fluent Bit Edition

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 live demoing of some of the following (viewers choice):

• collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, enriching and securing, then passing to output destination.
• collecting Fluent Bit metrics and displaying with Prometheus.
• integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry.
• exploring logs collection and control with Fluent Bit on Kubernetes clusters.
• preview collecting AI workload (LLM) metrics, logs, and traces with Fluent Bit. 

This is going to be a trial session where I'm brining a lot of hands-on and live demo content together and letting the attendees choose what they find most interesting. Please join us if you are in the area as I am excited to get some feedback on this session format!