How Are OpenTelemetry and Fluent Bit Related?

Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Manning Book: “Fluent Bit with Kubernetes,” a guide to configuring Kubernetes logging, metrics and trace pipelines. This excerpt focuses on Fluent Bit’s relationship to OpenTelemetry and its evolution in capturing not only logs but also local metrics such as CPU, memory and storage use. To examine more closely how Fluent Bit and OTel perform different functions, download the full book.

How OpenTelemetry Came to Life

Before OpenTelemetry (OTel), the primary…