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Transform your logs in-flight with Lua, AI, and Calyptia
Learn how Calyptia lets you create custom processing rules to transform your data using Lua and how Calyptia integrates AI to simplify data processing.
Fluent Bit v3 gives users greater control of their data and telemetry pipelines
New release allows filtering of Windows and MacOS metrics, supports SQL for parsing logs, adds support for HTTP/2, and more.
Send distributed traces to AWS X-Ray using Fluent Bit
Distributed tracing helps identify performance bottlenecks, optimize resource utilization, and troubleshoot issues in distributed systems. In this post, we'll guide you through the process of sending distributed traces to AWS X-Ray using Fluent Bit.
A practical guide for avoiding data loss and backpressure problems with Fluent Bit
Learn how to detect and avoid backpressure problems with Fluent Bit by balancing memory-based and filesystem-based buffering.
Calyptia joins Chronosphere to build the future of observability
Today we are excited to announce that Calyptia is now part of Chronosphere. This will bring new benefits and opportunities to both Calyptia and Chronosphere customers while we continue to provide a vendor neutral approach to control observability data to any backend.
Processing Custom IIS server logs with Fluent Bit, Wasm, and Rust
Create a custom processing script for IIS logs written in Rust and implemented using the Fluent Bit Wasm plugin.
Calyptia Core adds support for Redpanda
Calyptia Core now supports Redpanda as a destination for high-volume streaming data pipelines.
Fluent Bit: One Telemetry Agent for All your Data Needs
Watch Fluent Bit original creator Eduardo Silva present an overview of the open source project during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in November 2023.
Kubernetes Metadata Enrichment with Fluent Bit (with Troubleshooting Tips)
Learn how to enrich Kubelet logs with metadata from the K8s API server along with troubleshooting tips for common misconfigurations.
Logging Deep Dive and Best Practices
In this video from KubeCon, the Calyptia team discusses the challenges of logging and then demonstrates best practices and monitoring and operations with Fluent Bit
Meet Fluent Bit v2.2!
Announcing the release of Fluent Bit v2.2! Watch the project update from Observability Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America and read about some of the highlights from the new release.
Convert Logs To Metrics in Legacy Applications Using Fluent Bit
Learn how Fluent Bit can derive metrics from application logs, helping to bridge the gap between limited telemetry sources and comprehensive system observability.
Observability with Eduardo Silva: Software Engineering Daily Podcast
Host Lee Atchison interviews Calyptia CEO Eduardo Silva on the challenges of gathering and routing observability data in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Dynamic Log Routing Based On Kubernetes Labels using Fluent Bit & WASM
Learn how to use Fluent Bit's WASM plugin to process and evaluate Kubernetes labels in streaming logs and determine where the log data should be routed for storage.
Creating custom processing rules for Fluent Bit with Lua
What if you need a Fluent Bit filter plugin that doesn't exist yet? Thankfully, for these situations, the official Lua filter plugin for Fluent Bit allows users to write custom Lua scripts to process streaming data. Learn how in this post.
Enforcing structured logging across applications using Fluent Bit
In this article, we will leverage Fluent Bit’s log processing capabilities to ensure consistent structured logging across applications using two different methods. In addition, we demonstrate how to send alerts to Slack when the logs are not properly formatted.
Fluent Bit: Alerting via Slack when the log destination is unreachable
Learn how to use Fluent Bit to identify irregularities in the data pipeline as they occur and send alerts to Slack
Scaling ARM builds with Actuated
Calyptia fixed its failing Arm builds for open-source Fluent Bit and accelerated our commercial development by adopting Actuated and bare-metal runners.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Container Journal: How To Avoid Cloud-Native Observability Tooling Sprawl
Calyptia co-founder Anurag Gupta's guest post in Container Journal
“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.
Observability Democratized: The Need for Low-Code/No-Code Observability Pipeline Solutions
We must reenvision how we manage and configure our telemetry pipelines
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
Improving Fluent Bit Supply Chain Security with Cosign from OpenSSF
Fluent Bit is now a part of the OpenSSF landscape
Datanami: Fluentd & Fluent Bit and the Rise of Roll-Your-Own Observability
Anurag Gupta discusses efforts to control the cost of observability data
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.
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.
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: Calyptia Announces General Availability of Calyptia Core
Calyptia announces the immediate availability of Calyptia Fluent Bit in the AWS Marketplace
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
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.
Announcing Calyptia for Fluent Bit
I’m writing this from my hotel room in Valencia, Spain, where tomorrow morning I will…
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.
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.
