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The unofficial Chocolatey package for Fluent Bit

Fluent Bit is a super fast, lightweight, and highly scalable logging, metrics, and traces processor and forwarder. It is the preferred choice for cloud and containerized environments.

Getting Started

• Prerequisites
• Install
• Build from source

Prerequisites

• Chocolatey

Install

The chocolatey package can either be:

• Downloaded from the chocolatey community repository found here: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/fluent-bit/ Direct install command:

  choco install fluent-bit
  

  OR
• Downloaded from the releases page of this GitHub repo found here: https://github.com/sier/choco-fluent-bit/releases

  cd <DOWNLOAD LOCATION>
  choco install fluent-bit --source .
  

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/sier/choco-fluent-bit.git
cd choco-fluent-bit
choco pack --outputdirectory build

To install the package using debug mode:

choco install fluent-bit --debug --verbose --source .

(Git) Automated Updates to Chocolatey

This repository includes an automated workflow that checks for new Fluent Bit releases every other day and creates pull requests when updates are available. See AUTO_UPDATE.md for details.

Manual Updates

You can also check for and apply updates manually using the provided PowerShell scripts:

# Check if an update is available
.\update-package.ps1 -CheckOnly

# Update to the latest version
.\update-package.ps1

# Test the update logic
.\test-update-logic.ps1