Shipping Syslog Data to Elasticsearch With Fluent Bit

Fluent Bit is a widely used open source data collection agent, processor and forwarder that enables you to collect logs, metrics and traces from various sources, filter and transform them, and then forward them to multiple destinations.

In modern infrastructure, despite the rise of structured JSON logging, Syslog remains a standard for networking equipment, legacy applications and Linux distributions. However, analyzing Syslog files locally on each server is not practical.

In this guide, we will set up Fluent Bit as a centralized Syslog…