Fluent Bit: First Mile Observability

Fluent Bit and Fluentd open source projects have become the de facto solutions for First Mile Observability of logging and metrics data in any cloud environment. In this context, “First Mile”, refers to Fluent’s ability to analyze and monitor data immediately, where it is created and collected. Rather than waiting for expensive, time-consuming, data transport and centralized analysis in a back end, practitioners get immediate insight into their systems and can act quickly to optimize performance. In this session you will learn about: 1) The history and future of the Fluent projects, 2) Core use cases for the technology, with examples of large organizations scaling up to process petabytes of data across thousands of servers per day, and 3) How Calyptia, the company founded by Fluent creators and maintainers, is taking the Fluent ecosystem to the next enterprise level, developing cloud services and providing free tools for the community