Fluent Bit Explained: Data Pipelines for Observability

In this episode of 🌩️ Thunder, Eduardo Silva, creator and maintainer of Fluent Bit, discusses the evolution of cloud native logging — how Fluentd introduced a unified way to collect and route logs, and how Fluent Bit extended that approach for modern environments.

We cover what makes Fluent Bit lightweight, how it’s grown beyond logs to handle metrics and traces, and how it fits alongside the OpenTelemetry Collector. Eduardo also explains Fluent Bit’s plugin architecture.

Watch now → youtu.be/t6RxvVGvM…