Fluent Bit installation on Ubuntu

In order to forward Ubuntu logs to Apica Ascent by leveraging Fluent Bit, do the following.

  1. Download the td-agent-bit.sh script from this folder.

  2. Make the script executable by running the following command.

chmod +x td-agent-bit.sh

For AWS EC2 ubuntu instances

chmod +x td-agent-bit-aws.sh
  1. Set the cluster details

export LOGIQ="example.logiq.ai"
export MY_TOKEN=<Your Token>
  1. Execute the script by running the following command.

HTTP endpoint:
sudo -E ./td-agent-bit.sh "http"

HTTPS endpoint:
sudo -E ./td-agent-bit.sh "https"

or

HTTP endpoint:
sudo bash td-agent-bit.sh "http"

HTTPS endpoint:
sudo bash td-agent-bit.sh "https"


For AWS EC2 Ubuntu instances:

HTTP endpoint:
sudo -E ./td-agent-bit-aws.sh "http"

HTTPS endpoint:
sudo -E ./td-agent-bit-aws.sh "https"

or

HTTP endpoint:
sudo bash td-agent-bit-aws.sh "http"

HTTPS endpoint:
sudo bash td-agent-bit-aws.sh "https"

The script execution carries out the following:

  • Installs Fluent Bit

  • Checks your OS versions and updates your sources list, as mentioned in the Fluent Bit documentation.

  • Configures Rsyslog to add omfwd, as shown below.

    *.* action(type="omfwd"
             queue.type="LinkedList"
             action.resumeRetryCount="-1"
             queue.size="10000"
             queue.saveonshutdown="on"
             target="127.0.0.1" Port="5140" Protocol="tcp"
             )
  • The script also places the td-agent-bit.conf file under the default Fluent Bit installation folder /etc/td-agent-bit as shown below for http and https endpoints.

     For HTTP endpoint
     
     [OUTPUT]
        Name          http
        Match         *
        Host          localhost
        Port          80
        URI           /v1/json_batch
        Format        json
        tls           off
        tls.verify    off
        net.keepalive off
        compress      gzip
        Header Authorization Bearer ${LOGIQ_TOKEN}
     
    
     For HTTPS endpoint
     
       [OUTPUT]
        name     http
        match    *
        host     <logiq endpoint>
        port     443 
        URI      /v1/json_batch
        Format   json
        tls      on
        tls.verify  off
        net.keepalive  off
        compress      gzip
        Header Authorization Bearer <Token>  
     

You should now see your Ubuntu logs being ingested into the Linux:Linux1 namespace on your Apica Ascent UI.

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