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

 

As I mentioned previously, I was going to speak in June at Cloud Native Manchester, 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!"

Tonight I shared a rather ambitious session where, after introducing the concepts of telemetry pipelines, I let the meetup attendees choose from a list of five examples (demo scenarios). I then proceeded to share live on stage the details of how things work; Fluent Bit pipelines, integration with OpenTelemetry, integration with Prometheus, controlling logs in a Kubernetes cluster, and AI observability. 

As promised, I wanted to share both the slides and talk details below.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Top 3 Telemetry Pipeline Output Plugins for Developers

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 for developers. In case you missed the previous article, check out the top 3 telemetry pipeline input plugins for developers where you get tips on the best of Fluent Bit for your developer experiences.

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 top three output plugins for your telemetry pipeline configuration.

SRECon EU 2025 - The Executive Signal

"SREcon25 Europe/Middle East/Africa is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the profession as well as those who have been involved in it for decades. The conference has a culture of critical thought, deep technical insights, continuous improvement, and innovation."

This is SRECon25 EU and with it being in Dublin from 7-9 Oct this year, I couldn't resist submitting a few of my cloud native observability ideas. They had the entire spectrum of session types, including lightning talks, so I pushed in a few for each category.

The final selection was a few weeks back and for the second time, they seem keen to see one of my lightning talks. Let's see what they found to be the most interesting idea I pushed in for their call for papers.