Cloud Native Rejekts London: Mastering Fluent Bit - Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry

One of the really fun events around the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) flagship event KubeCon + CloudNativeCon is Cloud Native Rejekts. This event started by a Netherlands based organization, hence the unique Dutch spelling of the word rejects, and is meant to be a second chance for talks not accepted into the main CNCF event.

I love the idea of second chances and believe many of the talks given at Cloud Native Rejekts should have been in the main event. Quality and quantity of these talks is often astounding. Since my transfer from the application development domains to the cloud native observability domain more than two years ago, I've never missed a single CFP for this event. 

In the past I've spoken at the North American event sharing a session on Perses, and at the European event sharing OpenTelemetry insights. This year I've been selected to the Cloud Native Rejekts EU event with a session sharing what integrating Fluent Bit with OpenTelemetry looks like, including live demo components.

 Below you will find the session title, abstract, and location details for this London based event.

Mastering Fluent Bit: Ultimate Guide to Integrating Telemetry Pipelines with OpenTelemetry 

It's time you stopped letting your telemetry data pressure your budgets and get in the way of  solving issues with agility! No more I say! Take back control of your telemetry data as we guide you through the open source project Fluent Bit. Learn how to manage your telemetry  data from source to destination using the pipeline phases covering collection, parsing, aggregation, transformation, and forwarding from any source to any destination. Buckle up for a fun ride as you learn by exploring how telemetry pipelines work, how to set up your first pipeline, and exploring several common use cases that Fluent Bit helps solve as you integrate with OpenTelemetry collectors in your organization. All this backed by a self-paced, hands-on workshop that attendees can pursue at home after this session (https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-fluentbit).

Talk includes 15 mins of live demoing the following integration phases:

• collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, enriching and securing, then passing to output destination.
• exposing Fluent Bit collected data as metrics endpoint, collecting, and displaying with Prometheus.
• collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, putting into OpenTelemetry (OTLP) format, then passing to output destination.
• collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, putting into OpenTelemetry (OTLP) format, then passing to OpenTelemetry Collector.
• collecting telemetry data with Fluent Bit, putting into OpenTelemetry (OTLP) format, then passing to OpenTelemetry Collector, finally sending it to storage for later usage.

Date: 30 March 2025

Time: 11:45–12:15 (UK)

Room: The Nash

Look forward to seeing you there and sharing some real fun hands-on learning with Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry.