Calyptia Core Agent
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  • Calyptia Core Agent Documentation
  • Comparison to Fluent Bit
  • Performance and Benchmarking
  • Concepts
    • Key Concepts
    • Buffering
    • Data Pipeline
      • Input
      • Parser
      • Filter
      • Buffer
      • Router
      • Output
  • Installation
    • Getting Started with Calyptia Core Agent
    • Supported Platforms
    • Linux Packages
      • Amazon Linux
      • Redhat / CentOS
      • Debian
      • Ubuntu
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • macOS
    • Windows
  • Administration
    • Configuring Calyptia Core Agent
      • Classic mode
        • Format and Schema
        • Configuration File
        • Variables
        • Commands
        • Upstream Servers
        • Record Accessor
      • YAML Configuration File
      • Unit Sizes
      • Multiline Parsing
    • Transport Security
    • Buffering & Storage
    • Backpressure
    • Scheduling and Retries
    • Networking
    • Memory Management
    • Monitoring
    • HTTP Proxy
    • Hot Reload
    • Troubleshooting
  • Local Testing
    • Validating your Data and Structure
    • Running a Logging Pipeline Locally
  • Data Pipeline
    • Inputs
      • Collectd
      • CPU Log Based Metrics
      • Disk I/O Log Based Metrics
      • Docker Log Based Metrics
      • Docker Events
      • Dummy
      • Elasticsearch
      • Exec
      • Exec Wasi
      • Fluent Bit Metrics
      • Forward
      • Head
      • HTTP
      • Kafka
      • Health
      • Kernel Logs
      • Memory Metrics
      • MQTT
      • Network I/O Log Based Metrics
      • NGINX Exporter Metrics
      • Node Exporter Metrics
      • Podman Metrics
      • Process Log Based Metrics
      • Prometheus Scrape Metrics
      • Random
      • Serial Interface
      • Standard Input
      • StatsD
      • Syslog
      • Systemd
      • Tail
      • TCP
      • Thermal
      • OpenTelemetry
      • Windows Event Log
      • Windows Event Log (winevtlog)
      • Windows Exporter Metrics
    • Parsers
      • Configuring Parser
      • JSON
      • Regular Expression
      • LTSV
      • Logfmt
      • Decoders
    • Filters
      • AWS Metadata
      • CheckList
      • ECS Metadata
      • Expect
      • GeoIP2 Filter
      • Grep
      • Kubernetes
      • Log to Metrics
      • Lua
      • Parser
      • Record Modifier
      • Modify
      • Multiline
      • Nest
      • Nightfall
      • Rewrite Tag
      • Standard Output
      • Throttle
      • Tensorflow
      • Wasm
    • Outputs
      • Amazon CloudWatch
      • Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
      • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
      • Amazon S3
      • Azure Blob
      • Azure Data Explorer
      • Azure Log Analytics
      • Counter
      • Datadog
      • Elasticsearch
      • File
      • FlowCounter
      • Forward
      • GELF
      • Google Cloud BigQuery
      • HTTP
      • InfluxDB
      • Kafka
      • Kafka REST Proxy
      • LogDNA
      • Loki
      • NATS
      • New Relic
      • NULL
      • Observe
      • OpenSearch
      • OpenTelemetry
      • PostgreSQL
      • Prometheus Exporter
      • Prometheus Remote Write
      • SkyWalking
      • Slack
      • Splunk
      • Stackdriver
      • Standard Output
      • Syslog
      • TCP & TLS
      • Treasure Data
      • Vivo Exporter
      • WebSocket
  • Calyptia Core Agent for Developers
    • Golang Output Plugins
    • WASM Filter Plugins
    • WASM Input Plugins
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Comparison to Fluent Bit

Calyptia Core Agent is based on an open-source tool called Fluent Bit. Although both Calyptia Core Agent and Fluent Bit offer the same basic logging capabilities, Calyptia Core Agent is built and maintained by Chronosphere and offers a variety of extra features:

Feature
Fluent Bit
Calyptia Core Agent

Maintenance

Three to four weeks (latest version only)

One year (up to 18 months available)

Security fixes

None guaranteed

Hotfixes and SLA available

Backporting fixes

None

One year (up to 18 months available)

Bug fixes

None guaranteed

Hotfixes and SLA available

Support

None

Service desk and SLA available

Packages

Standard

Extended for SLES 12/15, CentOS 6, RHEL 6, Amazon Linux 1, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Advanced Features (for example, plugins)

None

In development

Support

Chronosphere maintains each version of Calyptia Core Agent for a year following its release.

Version equivalents

Because Calyptia Core Agent is based on Fluent Bit, which updates on its own cadence, each version of Calyptia Core Agent corresponds to a specific version of Fluent Bit:

Calyptia Core Agent version
Fluent Bit version

24.01.1

2.2.1

23.10.2

2.2.1

23.10.1

2.2.0

23.4.11

2.1.10

23.4.10

2.1.8

23.4.9

2.1.8

23.4.8

2.1.8

23.4.7

2.1.8

23.4.6

2.1.8

23.4.5

2.1.8

23.4.4

2.1.7

23.4.3

2.1.6

23.4.2

2.1.6

23.4.1

2.1.2

22.10.5

2.0.10

22.10.4

2.0.9

22.10.3

2.0.9

22.10.2

2.0.5

22.10.1

2.0.5

22.4.6

1.9.7

22.4.5

1.9.7

22.4.4

1.9.7

22.4.3

1.9.7

22.4.2

1.9.7

22.4.1

1.9.3

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