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description A plugin to collect Fluent Bit metrics

Fluent Bit metrics

Fluent Bit exposes metrics to let you monitor the internals of your pipeline. The collected metrics can be processed similarly to those from the Prometheus Node Exporter input plugin. They can be sent to output plugins including Prometheus Exporter, Prometheus Remote Write or OpenTelemetry.

{% hint style="info" %}

Metrics collected with Node Exporter Metrics flow through a separate pipeline from logs and current filters don't operate on top of metrics.

{% endhint %}

Configuration

Key Description Default
scrape_interval The rate at which metrics are collected from the host operating system. 2 seconds
scrape_on_start Scrape metrics upon start, use to avoid waiting for scrape_interval for the first round of metrics. false
threaded Indicates whether to run this input in its own thread. false

Get started

Configuration file

In the following configuration file, the input plugin node_exporter_metrics collects metrics every 2 seconds and exposes them through the Prometheus Exporter output plugin on HTTP/TCP port 2021.

{% tabs %} {% tab title="fluent-bit.yaml" %}

service:
  flush: 1
  log_level: info

pipeline:
  inputs:
    - name: fluentbit_metrics
      tag: internal_metrics
      scrape_interval: 2

  outputs:
    - name: prometheus_exporter
      match: internal_metrics
      host: 0.0.0.0
      port: 2021

{% endtab %} {% tab title="fluent-bit.conf" %}

# Fluent Bit Metrics + Prometheus Exporter
# -------------------------------------------
# The following example collects Fluent Bit metrics and exposes
# them through a Prometheus HTTP endpoint.
#
# After starting the service try it with:
#
# $ curl http://127.0.0.1:2021/metrics
#
[SERVICE]
  flush           1
  log_level       info

[INPUT]
  name            fluentbit_metrics
  tag             internal_metrics
  scrape_interval 2

[OUTPUT]
  name            prometheus_exporter
  match           internal_metrics
  host            0.0.0.0
  port            2021

{% endtab %} {% endtabs %}

You can test the expose of the metrics by using curl:

curl http://127.0.0.1:2021/metrics