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description: The Production Grade Telemetry Ecosystem
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# Fluentd & Fluent Bit
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# Fluentd and Fluent Bit
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Telemetry data processing in general can be complex, and at scale a bit more, that's why [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) was born. Fluentd has become more than a simple tool, it has grown into a fullscale ecosystem that contains SDKs for different languages and sub-projects like [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io).
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Telemetry data processing can be complex, especially at scale. That's why
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[Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) was created. Fluentd is more than a simple tool,
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it's grown into a fullscale ecosystem that contains SDKs for different languages
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and subprojects like [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io).
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On this page, we will describe the relationship between the [Fluentd](http://fluentd.org) and [Fluent Bit](http://fluentbit.io) open source projects, as a summary we can say both are:
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Here, we describe the relationship between the [Fluentd](http://fluentd.org)
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and [Fluent Bit](http://fluentbit.io) open source projects.
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* Licensed under the terms of Apache License v2.0
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* **Graduated** Hosted projects by the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)](https://cncf.io)
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* Production Grade solutions: deployed **million** of times every single day.
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* **Vendor neutral** and community driven projects
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* Widely Adopted by the Industry: trusted by all major companies like AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and hundreds of others.
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Both projects are:
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Both projects share a lot of similarities, [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io) is fully designed and built on top of the best ideas of [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) architecture and general design. Choosing which one to use depends on the end-user needs.
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- Licensed under the terms of Apache License v2.0.
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- Graduated hosted projects by the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)](https://cncf.io).
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- Production grade solutions: Deployed millions of times every single day.
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- Vendor neutral and community driven.
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- Widely adopted by the industry: Trusted by major companies like AWS, Microsoft,
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Google Cloud, and hundreds of others.
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The projects have many similarities: [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io) is
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designed and built on top of the best ideas of [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org)
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architecture and general design. Which one you choose depends on your end-users' needs.
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The following table describes a comparison of different areas of the projects:
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| | Fluentd | Fluent Bit |
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| Scope | Containers / Servers | Embedded Linux / Containers / Servers |
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| Language | C & Ruby | C |
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| Memory | > 60MB | \~1MB |
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| Performance | Medium Performance | High Performance |
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| Dependencies | Built as a Ruby Gem, it requires a certain number of gems. | Zero dependencies, unless some special plugin requires them. |
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| Plugins | More than 1000 external plugins are available | More than 100 built-in plugins are available |
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| Attribute | Fluentd | Fluent Bit |
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| ------------ | --------------------- | --------------------- |
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| Scope | Containers / Servers | Embedded Linux / Containers / Servers |
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| Language | C & Ruby | C |
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| Memory | Greater than 60 MB | Approximately 1 MB |
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| Performance | Medium Performance | High Performance |
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| Dependencies | Built as a Ruby Gem, depends on other gems. | Zero dependencies, unless required by a plugin. |
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| Plugins | Over 1,000 external plugins available. | Over 100 built-in plugins available. |
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| License | [Apache License v2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) | [Apache License v2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) |
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Both [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) and [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io) can work as Aggregators or Forwarders, they both can complement each other or use them as standalone solutions.\
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In the recent years, Cloud Providers switched from Fluentd to Fluent Bit for performance and compatibility reasons. Fluent Bit is now considered the **next generation** solution.
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Both [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) and [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io)
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can work as Aggregators or Forwarders, and can complement each other or be used
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as standalone solutions.
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In the recent years, cloud providers have switched from Fluentd to Fluent Bit for
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performance and compatibility. Fluent Bit is now considered the next-generation solution.

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