The last couple of weeks have been pretty exciting. Firstly, we have Fluent Bit 3.1 released, which brings further feature development to Fluent Bit, making it even more capable with Fluent Bit handling of Open Telemetry (OTel).

The full details of the release are available at https://fluentbit.io/announcements/v3.1.0/

Fluent Bit classic to YAML

We’ve been progressing the utility, testing and stabilizing it, and making several releases accordingly. The utility is packaged as a Docker image, and the regression test tool also runs as a Docker image.

Moving forward, we’ll start branching to develop significant changes to keep the trunk stable, including experimenting with the possibility of extending the tool to help port Fluentd to Fluent Bit YAML configurations. The tools won’t be able to do everything, but I hope they will help address the core structural challenges and flag differences needing manual intervention.

Book

The Fluent Bit book has moved into its last phase with the start of copy editing. We have also had a shift in the name to Logs and Telemetry using Fluent Bit, Kubernetes, streaming, and more, or just Logs and Telemetry using Fluent Bit. The book fundamentally hasn’t changed. There is still a lot of Kubernetes-related content, but it helps focus on what Fluent Bit is all about rather than being just another Kubernetes book.