Build cloud native observability pipelines with minimal footprints and high-performance throughput—all with Fluent Bit, Kubernetes, and your favorite visualization and analytics tools.

Fluent Bit is a super-fast and super lightweight observability tool—making it perfect for telemetry on Kubernetes-based systems. Logs and Telemetry is an all-practical guide to monitoring both cloud-native and traditional environments with Fluent Bit. It takes you from the basics of collecting app logs, all the way to filtering, routing, enriching and transforming logs, metrics, and traces.

Inside Logs and Telemetry you’ll learn how to:

Deploy Fluent Bit for log, metric, and trace collection
Configure pipelines to filter, route, and transform data
Integrate Fluent Bit with containers and Kubernetes
Configure Fluent Bit to work with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and other open source tech
Monitor applications at scale with minimal footprint
Address challenges in Kubernetes-based ecosystems using Fluent Bit
Utilize Fluent Bit for real-time event analytics
Develop custom filters, inputs, and outputs for unique or reusable use cases


Logs and Telemetry draws on both the input and support of key committers and founders of Fluent Bit, and author Phil Wilkin’s years of experience in DevOps. Inside, you’ll see how you can integrate Fluent Bit with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, FluentD deployments, and more. Learn how Fluent Bit can not only meet all the demands of cloud-native use cases, but also more traditional deployments as well.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the book

Inside Logs and Telemetry you’ll learn how to establish and optimize observability systems for Kubernetes, and more. From fundamental configuration to advanced integrations, this book lays out Fluent Bit’s full capabilities for log, metric, and trace routing and processing. You’ll start with pre-made configurations for universal use cases, steadily working your way up to see how Fluent Bit works with modern innovations like OpenTelemetry and real-time analytical processing of events. You’ll learn how to customize filtering and processing using Lua scripts and plugins, and meet the demands of highly scalable environments with a minimal footprint. By the end, you’ll be ready to build tailored observability pipelines efficiently using Fluent Bit.