Eric D. Schabell: July 2025

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Mastering Fluent Bit: Developer Guide to Service Section Configuration

This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit. 

Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Let's take a look at the topic of this article, using Fluent Bit tips and tricks for developersIn case you missed the previous article, check out using a Fluent Bit pipeline on a Kubernetes cluster to take control of all the logs being generated.

This article will be a hands-on tour of the things that help you as a developer testing out your Fluent Bit pipelines. We'll take a look at the services, the input, and the output sections of your configurations.