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How to Collect Kubernetes Component Logs Using Fluent Bit
Learn how to collect logs from Kubernetes components (such as kube-proxy, kubelet, etc.) and send them to the destination of your choice using Fluent Bit.
Use Fluent Bit to Enrich Logs with Kubernetes Metadata, Automatically
Learn how Kubernetes metadata can enhance traceability and enrich diagnostics and how Fluent Bit makes it possible
Fluent Bit Summer Webinar Series
Extending over six weeks in July and August, Calyptia will offer three webinars hosted by Fluent Bit maintainers and contributors.
Observability Day at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023
Calyptia is proud to sponsor Observability Day, a co-located event during Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 to be held on November 6, 2023, in Chicago, IL.
Protecting Customer Data with Calyptia Core
Calyptia Core lets you identify sensitive data and redact, remove, or hash it midstream before it is stored where it doesn’t need to be stored.
Media Mention: Intellyx on Calyptia
Calyptia Core has a "a front-row seat to filter data streams at their point of ingress."
Visualizing Kubernetes Metrics using Fluent Bit & Grafana
Visualizing Kubernetes metrics using Fluent Bit and Grafana can provide numerous benefits to organizations running complex modern cloud-native applications.
Leveraging Forward Protocol in Fluent for Log Forwarding
Understanding the lightweight and efficient Fluent forward protocol that allows for the transmission of logs across different nodes or systems in real-time.
Getting Started with Calyptia Core
A video demonstration of installing Calyptia Core and using the UI to create an auto-healing, auto-scaling telemetry pipeline to send data to OpenSearch.
Getting Started with Calyptia Core and New Relic: Data Obfuscation
A video demonstration of using Calyptia Core to gather telemetry data, process it in mid-stream, and route it to New Relic for storage and analysis.
Fluent Bit and Beats: Two Approaches to a Task
Fluent Bit and Beats data shippers from Elastic take dramatically different approaches to collecting and routing telemetry data. Here's an overview.
Efficient Log Management with Fluent Bit and Amazon S3
Learn how to collect metrics and logs using Fluent Bit and forward them to Amazon S3 for cost-effective storage.
How to Collect Metrics from Multiple Sources with Fluent Bit
How to collect application metrics and system metrics using Fluent Bit and push them to a visualization tool like Grafana.
Beginner’s Guide to Observability and Monitoring in Kubernetes
An exploration of observability in Kubernetes
Why Metrics Matter: A Guide to Effective Performance Measurement
An overview of the vital role that metrics play in observability and monitoring along with an overview of some of the types of metrics most closely used.
Too Much Success? — How Calyptia Solved an Unusual Problem with a Team’s SIEM Adoption
Calyptia recently helped a customer eliminate the volume of noisy data flowing into their SIEM platform and add capacity for monitoring additional systems.
Gestalt IT: Enterprise Observability Based on Fluent Bit for Telemetry Pipelines
Stephen Foskett writes, "Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Calyptia offering is the possibility that it could enable new value to be extracted from data."
Community in Bloom: A KubeCon EU 2023 Recap
Highlights from Observability Day and KubeCon EU in Amsterdam, including information on the release of Calyptia Core 2.0 featuring Fleet Management.
Powering Custom Metric Collection in On-Prem Apps with Fluent Bit
Learn how to build a robust monitoring pipeline using Fluent Bit, Prometheus, and New Relic.
Highlights and Takeaways from Observability Day at KubeCon EU 2023
Highlights from Observability Day at KubeCon, including updates from the major CNCF observability projects, as well as the topics that everyone was discussing.
Calyptia Core 2.0 Introduces Fleet Management and More
Calyptia Core 2.0 now has fleet management, a major new feature that unlocks time savings and engineering productivity.
Getting Started with Monitoring: Fluent Bit and Prometheus Metrics 101
Use Fluent Bit with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics collection and analysis.
InfoWorld: 6 ways to avoid and reduce data debt
Calyptia’s Erik Bledsoe is quoted in this article from InfoWorld about steps data teams can take to avoid or reduce data debt risks.
Building an Observability Pipeline with OpenTelemetry and Fluent Bit
Building an observability pipeline using OpenTelemetry and Fluent Bit
The Top Open Source Tools for Observability
The number of tools for observability is overwhelming. We sort through the noise and discuss the major open source projects used in observability efforts.
Handling Multiline Logs with Fluent Bit: Configuration and Best Practices
Without proper handling, multiline logs can be difficult to read and interpret.
Sending Java applications logs to Elasticsearch using Fluent Bit
Send Java logs to Elasticsearch using FB's flexible logging pipeline.
Observability, Fluentd, and Fluent Bit with Calyptia [Podcast]
Chris Evans of The Unpacked Netword chats with Anurag Gupta, co-founder at Calyptia, about the requirements for system observability, specifically using Fluentd and Fluent Bit.
Tracee Now Natively Supports Fluent Bit and Fluentd
Aquasec’s Tracee tool supports sending events directly to Fluent
Why the Evolution of Observability Is Naturally Migrating Toward Open Source
Open-source tools are essential to meeting today’s observability challenges.
Spiceworks: 5 Steps Tech Companies Can Take To Develop Women Leaders - Calyptia
Lisa Sanders-Nakahara, Calyptia’s head of global operations & people, discusses the steps the tech industry can take to develop women leaders.
How to send Logs to Loki using Fluent Bit
Use Fluent Bit to send logs to Loki rather than the Grafana agent
Reducing the High Cost of Observability
Observability budgets cannot keep pace with the volume of telemetry data.
“Thou art the muse of logs”: ChatGPT’s Love Sonnet to Fluent Bit
We asked ChatGPT how it felt about Fluent Bit. It responded with a sonnet.
Container Journal: How To Avoid Cloud-Native Observability Tooling Sprawl
Calyptia co-founder Anurag Gupta's guest post in Container Journal
Observability Democratized: The Need for Low-Code/No-Code Observability Pipeline Solutions
We must reenvision how we manage and configure our telemetry pipelines
Calyptia for Fluent Bit Now Supports OpenTelemetry
Calyptia Fluent Bit LTS (v22.10) now supports OpenTelemetry
InfoWorld: Why observability in dataops?
Eduardo Silva on routing data to a variety of destinations.
Send Logs to Elasticsearch Service using Fluent Bit
A how-to guide demonstrating how to send logs to Elasticsearch using Fluent Bit.
Avoiding Tool Sprawl in Your Observability Stack
Why tool sprawl is so common in observability and how to avoid it
Datanami: Fluentd & Fluent Bit and the Rise of Roll-Your-Own Observability
Anurag Gupta discusses efforts to control the cost of observability data
Improving Fluent Bit Supply Chain Security with Cosign from OpenSSF
Fluent Bit is now a part of the OpenSSF landscape
Talking Growth: Growing a Startup in the Observability Space
Calyptia co-founder Anurag Gupta is a guest on the "Talking Growth" podcast
OpenSearch Blog: Fluent Bit 2.0 and OpenSearch
How to get started with Fluent Bit v2.0 & OpenSearch.
Observability Day at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
Join us at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 on April 18, 2023, in Amsterdam
Configure, Manage, and Simplify Your Observability Data Pipelines with the Calyptia Core Docker Extension
Try Calyptia Core using our new Docker Desktop extension.
Inside Analysis: Observability in 2023
Inside Analysis spoke to Calyptia co-founder Eduardo Silva to get some insight into what 2023 has in store for observability professionals.
What I Found: Interview with Calyptia Co-founder Anurag Gupta
Calyptia co-founder Anurag Gupta is interviewed by What I Found where he discusses the impetus behind starting Calyptia, the fundraising process, and more.
TechTarget: 7 best practices for knowledge management strategies
Calyptia’s Lisa Sanders-Nakahara spoke to TechTarget about the importance of making a strong business case.
Calyptia Core cited in 2022 Gartner® Predicts 2023: Observing and Optimizing the Adaptive Organization report
Gartner® report predicts telemetry pipeline products like Calyptia Core will see increased adoption from enterprises in 2023.
Key Observability Takeaways from KubeCon
Reflections on KubeCon North America 2022 and Open Observability Day and where observability is headed.
Benchmarking Fluent Bit
We put Fluent Bit to the test to see if it can handle tens of thousands of messages a second. tldr: it can
ClickHouse Blog: Sending Kubernetes logs To ClickHouse with Fluent Bit
The second in a series of guest posts dedicated to sending log data to ClickHouse Cloud using Fluent Bit, this time with a focus on Kubernetes logs.
Press Release: Calyptia Announces General Availability of Calyptia Core
Calyptia announces the immediate availability of Calyptia Fluent Bit in the AWS Marketplace
Calyptia Core Now in General Availability
Today we are announcing the general availability of Calyptia Corehttps://calyptia.com/press-release-general-availability-of-calyptia-core/ . Core is a Kubernetes solution for simplifying the configuration and management of observability data pipelines.
Press Release: Fluent Bit v2 Adds Full Support for OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and WebAssembly Plugins
Calyptia announces the release of Fluent Bit v2.0
ClickHouse Blog: Sending Nginx logs to ClickHouse with Fluent Bit
A guest post showing how to route logs to a ClickHouse database with Fluent Bit
CNCF Blog Post: Fluent Bit Surpasses Three Billion Downloads!
Less than six months ago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the Fluent Bit community announced that Fluent Bit had been downloaded and deployed over one billion times. Fluent Bit has now tripled that achievement, surpassing the three billion mark in early October.
Openshift London Community Meetup September 2022
A wrap-up of Patrick Stephens's presentation at the meetup
Calyptia for Fluent Bit is in AWS Marketplace! 🎉
Calyptia for Fluent Bit is now available on the AWS Marketplace, and we couldn’t be more excited about that!
Press Release: Calyptia for Fluent Bit Now Available in AWS Marketplace
Calyptia for Fluent Bit Now Available in AWS Marketplace
Fluent Bit Tips & Tricks: Agile Iteration and Simple Debugging
Tips and tricks for diagnosing issues you might encounter while using Fluent Bit
Save 30% or More on your Splunk Bill with Calyptia Fluent Bit
As organizations move to cloud-native computing, container density and data volume keep on growing. Data…
OpenSearch Blog: Using Fluent Bit and OpenSearch with Bottlerocket and Kubelet logs
Run OpenSearch with the OpenSearch Operator on Kubernetes using the Bottlerocket and add Fluent Bit to collect logs from the nodes of the same K8s cluster.
Using eBPF with Fluent Bit and Tracee: How to forward eBPF output to any destination
How to combine eBPF monitoring with the Tracee tool with the ability to send to any destination (Grafana, Elastic, Datadog, Splunk, etc.) using Fluent Bit.
Announcing Open Observability Day at KubeCon North America
Calyptia is a proud sponsor of this co-located conference to be held at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
Troubleshooting your Fluent Bit Configuration with Calyptia Cloud
A guide to using Calyptia Cloud to visualize and troubleshoot your Fluent Bit configuration files by validating them against common errors
OpenShift London Community Meetup June 2022
Patrick Stephens presents highlights from the recent FluentCon and KubeCon conferences in Valencia to the Openshift Community Meetup in the Red Hat offices in London
Logs, OpenMetrics, and OpenTelemetry All-in-One
More than just a log processor, Fluent Bit is the central component of your observability pipeline, allowing you to gather and process logs, metrics, and traces and send them to any other application for analysis.
The Present and Future States of Fluent Bit
In the final of a three-part series, we look at the current state of Fluent Bit and ongoing efforts to expand its functionality, including support for traces and OpenTelemetry.
Fluent Bit: Designed for Cloud and Containerized Environments
In the second of a three-post series, we examine why Fluent Bit is a better solution than Fluentd for containers and microservices and the challenges facing developers in this era.
The Fluent Ecosystem
More than just Fluentd and Fluent Bit. The Fluent Ecosystem is a concept that you should be able to integrate with different systems, different architectures, and other projects.
Calyptia Announces the General Availability of Calyptia For Fluent Bit
A Long Term Support Version And Professional Services Plan For Enterprises Running Fluent Bit As Part Of Their IT Infrastructure.
Announcing Calyptia for Fluent Bit
I’m writing this from my hotel room in Valencia, Spain, where tomorrow morning I will…
Catching up With Calyptia: Gartner Names Calyptia a ‘Cool Vendor’ In Observability and Monitoring and FluentCon Kicks Off Next Week!
Download a complimentary copy of the Cool Vendor report and learn why Gartner thinks that what we are doing at Calyptia is cool.
Calyptia Named a Cool Vendor by Gartner
Calyptia named a Cool Vendor in Observability and Monitoring for Logging and Containers
Logs, OpenMetrics, and OpenTelemetry All-in-one
In this presentation, you will learn how to collect and aggregate Logs, Metrics, and Traces all together without losing control of your data by connecting different protocols at scale.
Podcast: First Mile Observability: Immediate, Actionable Systems Intelligence
Traditionally, enterprise observability solutions have required event data to be routed to back-end storage before any centralized analysis and reporting could take place. First Mile Observability shifts this whole process left, enabling observability immediately when and where the data is created.
Join us at Fluentcon Europe – The Largest Gathering of Fluent Experts Ever!
Co-Located with the Kubecon Europe conference, this action-packed event will enable beginners to hit the ground running and will provide experts with best practices for optimizing even the most complicated observability pipelines.
Introducing the Calyptia Sandbox Environment for Fluent Bit
Jump right in, get your hands dirty, and quickly learn one of the most powerful tools for enterprise observability. No set up or sign up required.
OpenSearch Blog: Getting started with Fluent Bit and OpenSearch
The release of Fluent Bit 1.9 included a number of new features, but the one feature we are really excited about is the OpenSearch plugin for Fluent Bit.
How to send OpenShift logs and metrics to Datadog, Elastic and Grafana – all at the same time!
A guide to cover how to deploy fully functional instances of Calyptia Fluent Bit and support forwarding the observability information of your cluster to various outputs including Splunk, Grafana Cloud, Elastic Cloud and others.
CNCF Blog Post: An Introduction To Metrics Monitoring With Fluent Bit and M3DB
M3DB’s ability to store long term metrics data at scale makes it a great option for demonstrating Fluent Bit’s new capabilities, especially with M3DB’s Prometheus compatibility and proven effectiveness in the largest enterprises.
CNCF Blog Post: Fluent Bit Reaches 1 Billion Downloads!
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the Fluent Bit community are thrilled to announce that Fluent Bit has been downloaded and deployed over one billion times, rapidly reaching a milestone that few software projects ever achieve.
Calyptia Enterprise for Fluent Bit is now generally available!
We are proud to announce that Calyptia Enterprise for Fluent Bit is now generally available and ready to solve the challenges of collecting, parsing, filtering, and routing observability data at scale.
CNCF On-Demand Webinar: Fluent Bit 1.9 – First Mile Observability
Fluent Bit is a fast, lightweight, highly scalable logging and metrics processor and forwarder. This presentation will detail Fluent Bit technology, functionality, and use cases. You’ll learn how Fluent Bit can enable First Mile Observability.
TechstrongTV: First-Mile Observability – Anurag Gupta, Calyptia
TechStrong.tv host Alan Shimel interviews Calyptia co-founder Anurag Gupta about closing a seed funding round of $5 million led by Sierra Ventures and Carbide Ventures and with participation from ACTAI Ventures and other angel investors.
Intellyx: Calyptia First-Mile Observability Data Filtering And Routing
Coverage from Intellyx about Calyptia and its managed cloud service for collecting metrics and telemetry data at its node-level sources.
Calpytia raises $5m seed round to bring Fluent Bit to the Enterprise
Calyptia has raised its $5m seed round to deliver an enterprise Platform that scales and integrates seamlessly with existing observability backends.
VentureBeat: With ‘First-Mile Observability,’ Calyptia Helps Companies Collect And Analyze System Data At Source
Calyptia co-founder Eduardo Silver is interviewed about the company’s recent funding, the problems they solve, and their plans for the next 12 months
Sierra Ventures Blog: Why Sierra Invested – Calyptia
Learn about why Sierra Ventures invested in Calyptia
SiliconAngle: Calyptia Raises $5m In Seed Funding To Accelerate Observability For Enterprises
A story from SiliconAngle about Calyptia's seed funding round led by Sierra Ventures and Carbide Ventures.
VMblog Expert Interview: Eduardo Silva Explores Calyptia, First-Mile Observability and What’s Next for Fluent Bit
Calyptia co-founder Eduardo Silva is interviewed about the company’s recent funding, the problems they solve, and their plans for the next 12 months
ZDNet: The Rise Of First-Mile Observability: Calyptia Enables Enterprises To Log All The Things
Cloud-native is the name of the game for application development. The creators of the Fluent Bit and Fluentd are launching an offering aimed at the enterprise.
Press Release: Calyptia Raises $5M to Bring Open Source Fluent Bit to the Enterprise, Deliver First-Mile Observability
Building on the advances of Fluent Bit and Fluentd, Calyptia brings to market the first comprehensive enterprise solution to enable any organization to manage observability data at scale and receive immediate insight into their systems’ performance.
