AWS Container Services launches Fluent Bit Plugins for AWS

Posted on: Jul 9, 2019

AWS Container Services launches AWS Fluent Bit, a container image pre-installed with Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose plugins that helps customers route container logs to multiple destinations such as CloudWatch, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service.  

Fluent Bit is an open source and multi-platform Log Processor and Forwarder which allows you to collect data and logs from different sources, unify and send them to multiple destinations. It's fully compatible with Docker and Kubernetes environments. Using the newly launched AWS Fluent Bit image, you can send container logs to the breadth of services for logs storage and analytics at AWS. You've been requesting for ways to send container logs to multiple destinations and the AWS Fluent Bit image enables integrations with Cloudwatch, S3, Amazon Athena, Elasticsearch Service, and Redshift.

Read our blog to learn more about how to use the Fluent Bit image on both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).