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Stream logs to Dynatrace via Fluent Bit for analysis and AI observability.
TechnologySeamlessly configure Fluent Bit to forward collected logs to Dynatrace for AI alerting, in-context analysis in the Dynatrace platform, and automation. While Fluent Bit has configurable HTTP output, Dynatrace can be configured as your data's target log management and analytics environment.
Fluent Bit is an open source, lightweight, and multi-platform log processor and forwarder that allows you to collect data/logs from different sources, unify and send them to multiple destinations, and is fully compatible with Docker and Kubernetes environments.
Integrate logs collected via Fluent Bit running as a log collector or edge agent. This will enable App Owners, DevOps, and SRE teams to centrally analyze all log data in the context of infrastructure, traces, and applications, build automation, and complement ingested observability signals for AI alerting.
If you already have Fluent Bit in your tech stack and have made an effort to configure pipelines to contextualize and enrich your log data, but your legacy log tooling is not capable of bringing answers based on logs, Dynatrace Platform will provide automation and problem detection for you.
Let’s take Kubernetes observability as an example.
To ensure Kubernetes platform and workload health with detailed cluster views that show all health-relevant signals of contained resources, including nodes, namespaces, and workloads Dynatrace comes with Kuberentes monitoring & observability
In order to complement observability signals like metrics and basic performance indicators, integrate Kubernetes logs with full Kubernetes context preservation by configuring stream of Kubernetes logs with Fluent Bit
For guided experience with minimal configuration navigate to Dynatrace Kubernetes Application and choose “+ Add cluster”. Refer to Kubernetes app documentation for more details.
Fluent Bit can be deployed as an edge agent for localized telemetry data handling or utilized as a central aggregator/collector for managing telemetry data across multiple sources and environments.
Just to name few:
Review the full list of Fluent Bit inputs in Fluent Bit Official Manual
Fluent Bit can be used as log collector for server-less cloud services to ship logs to external services. Please refer to Ingest AWS Fargate logs with Fluent Bit, for detailed integration instructions.
The Fluent Bit http output plugin allows to forward your logs into a Dynatrace Generic logs ingest endpoint.
Get a Dynatrace API token with the logs.ingest (Ingest Logs) scope
See Details section for configuration instructions.
In the case of Kubernetes' logs integration, please follow the instructions available in Dynatrace documentation, which also covers full k8s context preservationn: Stream Kubernetes logs with Fluent Bit
If you already manage Fluent Bit instance, you can use the following example for generic use cases: In your main Fluent Bit configuration file, add HTTP output plugin configurations by appending the Output section with the following configurations:
[OUTPUT]
name http
match *
header Content-Type application/json; charset=utf-8
header Authorization Api-Token {your-API-token-here}
allow_duplicated_headers false
host {your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com
Port 443
URI /api/v2/logs/ingest
Format json
json_date_format iso8601
json_date_key timestamp
tls On
tls.verify Off
See more in Dynatrace documentation: Stream logs to Dynatrace with Fluent Bit
Note: You can place your-API-token in the header or as GET variable in URI (see example in Use cases tab)
Refer to the Fluent Bit HTTP output plugin documentation for detailed configuration description: https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/outputs/http