Journey from Fluent Bit, Fluentd and Prometheus to OpenTelemetry Collector... Marcin "Perk" Stożek
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2023-11-08

Journey from Fluent Bit, Fluentd and Prometheus to OpenTelemetry Collector - Lessons Learned - Marcin "Perk" Stożek, Canonical

Telemetry collection seems very straightforward at first glance: just use Fluent Bit or Fluentd for logs, Prometheus for metrics and call it a day. But problems arise when we want the best performance or simplicity of the solution. It’s hard to maintain three different agents, with three different configurations and documentation in three different places. In the talk, Perk discusses why Sumo Logic replaced Fluent Bit, Fluentd and Prometheus with OpenTelemetry Collector and the challenges they faced along the way. Most importantly - is there a happy ending?