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2 | | -description: The Production Grade Telemetry Ecosystem |
| 2 | +description: The production grade telemetry ecosystem |
3 | 3 | --- |
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5 | | -# Fluentd & Fluent Bit |
| 5 | +# Fluentd and Fluent Bit |
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7 | | -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). |
| 7 | +Telemetry data processing can be complex, especially at scale. That's why |
| 8 | +[Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) was created. Fluentd is more than a simple tool, |
| 9 | +it's grown into a fullscale ecosystem that contains SDKs for different languages |
| 10 | +and subprojects like [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io). |
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9 | | -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: |
| 12 | +Here, we describe the relationship between the [Fluentd](http://fluentd.org) |
| 13 | +and [Fluent Bit](http://fluentbit.io) open source projects. |
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11 | | -* Licensed under the terms of Apache License v2.0 |
12 | | -* **Graduated** Hosted projects by the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)](https://cncf.io) |
13 | | -* Production Grade solutions: deployed **million** of times every single day. |
14 | | -* **Vendor neutral** and community driven projects |
15 | | -* Widely Adopted by the Industry: trusted by all major companies like AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and hundreds of others. |
| 15 | +Both projects are: |
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17 | | -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. |
| 17 | +- Licensed under the terms of Apache License v2.0. |
| 18 | +- Graduated hosted projects by the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)](https://cncf.io). |
| 19 | +- Production grade solutions: Deployed millions of times every single day. |
| 20 | +- Vendor neutral and community driven. |
| 21 | +- Widely adopted by the industry: Trusted by major companies like AWS, Microsoft, |
| 22 | + Google Cloud, and hundreds of others. |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +The projects have many similarities: [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io) is |
| 25 | +designed and built on top of the best ideas of [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) |
| 26 | +architecture and general design. Which one you choose depends on your end-users' needs. |
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19 | 28 | The following table describes a comparison of different areas of the projects: |
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21 | | -| | Fluentd | Fluent Bit | |
22 | | -| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | |
23 | | -| Scope | Containers / Servers | Embedded Linux / Containers / Servers | |
24 | | -| Language | C & Ruby | C | |
25 | | -| Memory | > 60MB | \~1MB | |
26 | | -| Performance | Medium Performance | High Performance | |
27 | | -| Dependencies | Built as a Ruby Gem, it requires a certain number of gems. | Zero dependencies, unless some special plugin requires them. | |
28 | | -| Plugins | More than 1000 external plugins are available | More than 100 built-in plugins are available | |
| 30 | +| Attribute | Fluentd | Fluent Bit | |
| 31 | +| ------------ | --------------------- | --------------------- | |
| 32 | +| Scope | Containers / Servers | Embedded Linux / Containers / Servers | |
| 33 | +| Language | C & Ruby | C | |
| 34 | +| Memory | Greater than 60 MB | Approximately 1 MB | |
| 35 | +| Performance | Medium Performance | High Performance | |
| 36 | +| Dependencies | Built as a Ruby Gem, depends on other gems. | Zero dependencies, unless required by a plugin. | |
| 37 | +| Plugins | Over 1,000 external plugins available. | Over 100 built-in plugins available. | |
29 | 38 | | 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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31 | | -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.\ |
32 | | -\ |
33 | | -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. |
| 40 | +Both [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) and [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io) |
| 41 | +can work as Aggregators or Forwarders, and can complement each other or be used |
| 42 | +as standalone solutions. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +In the recent years, cloud providers have switched from Fluentd to Fluent Bit for |
| 45 | +performance and compatibility. Fluent Bit is now considered the next-generation solution. |
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