macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install fluent-bitlocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install fluent-bitMacPorts ports tree · sysutils/fluent-bit/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install fluent-bit with Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix
Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics processor. Version 5.0.9 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-04.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add fluent-bitAlpine Linux edge package indexes · fluent-bit · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install fluent-bitFedora Rawhide package metadata · fluent-bit · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#fluent-bitnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/fl/fluent-bit/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics processor
Project links
Commands and aliases
- fluent-bit
history
Project history and usage
Fluent Bit is a CNCF graduated telemetry agent in the Fluentd ecosystem, built to collect, process, and forward logs, metrics, and traces with a small C implementation.
Project history
The Fluent Bit manual traces the project to 2014, when the Fluentd team at Treasure Data anticipated the need for a lightweight log processor for constrained environments such as embedded Linux and gateways. Eduardo Silva created Fluent Bit as a new open-source component of the Fluentd ecosystem.
As container and cloud-native deployments grew, Fluent Bit expanded beyond its original constrained-device scope to support more sources, filters, destinations, metrics, and traces.
Adoption history
Official documentation describes Fluent Bit as a CNCF graduated project under the Fluentd umbrella and says it is trusted by major cloud providers, banks, and other companies. The Fluentd comparison page says Fluent Bit is production-grade, vendor-neutral, and deployed globally at very large scale.
How it is used
Operators run fluent-bit as an edge agent, node-level log collector, or central aggregator. Its data pipeline model wires inputs, parsers, filters, processors, buffering, and outputs to ship telemetry into systems such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, cloud log services, search engines, and Fluentd.
Why package nerds care
Fluent Bit is significant to package maintainers because it is the small, C-based counterpart to Fluentd's Ruby-gem-centered ecosystem. That makes it attractive for base images, Kubernetes nodes, appliances, and distro packages where memory footprint, static-ish deployment, plugin packaging, and init-system integration matter.
Its rapid major-version release stream and wide plugin surface also make it a classic packaging stress test: downstreams care about bundled libraries, optional outputs, cloud credentials behavior, config compatibility, and migration notes.
Timeline
- 2014: Fluent Bit was created within the Fluentd ecosystem for lightweight log processing.
- 2018: Fluent Bit 1.0.0 was released.
- 2025: Fluent Bit 4.0.0 was released.
- 2026: Fluent Bit 5.0.0 and later 5.0 maintenance releases were published.
Related projects
- Fluentd is the parent ecosystem project and a related CNCF graduated project.
- OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and cloud-provider logging services are common integration targets described in the official manual.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for fluent-bit. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 3 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 4 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
fluent-bit | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version5.0.9
manager updated2026-07-04
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv5.0.9
https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:fluent-bit |
|---|---|
| Version | 5.0.9 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fluent-bit |
| Homepage | https://fluentbit.io |
| Repository | https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit |
| Upstream docs | https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Source archive | https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/archive/refs/tags/v5.0.9.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-07-04T17:52:35Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | libyaml, luajit, openssl@4 |
| Build dependencies | bison, cmake, flex, pkgconf |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | fluent-bit |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
fluent-bit
nix profile install nixpkgs#fluent-bit- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Fluent Bit
apk95%
fluent-bit 4.2.0-r0
Fast and Lightweight Log processor and forwarder
sudo apk add fluent-bit- License: Apache-2.0
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fluent-bit
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Fluent Bit
apk95%
fluent-bit-dev 4.2.0-r0
Fast and Lightweight Log processor and forwarder (development files)
sudo apk add fluent-bit-dev- License: Apache-2.0
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fluent-bit
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Fluent Bit
apk95%
fluent-bit-openrc 4.2.0-r0
Fast and Lightweight Log processor and forwarder (OpenRC init scripts)
sudo apk add fluent-bit-openrc- License: Apache-2.0
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fluent-bit
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Fluent Bit
dnf95%
fluent-bit 3.2.8-4.fc44
Fluent Bit is a super fast, lightweight, and highly scalable logging and metrics processor and forwarder.
https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit
sudo dnf install fluent-bit- License: Apache-2.0
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: fluent-bit
- 14 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Fluent Bit
MacPorts95%
fluent-bit
sudo port install fluent-bit- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Fluent Bit
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment