Calyptia Fluent Bit is distributed as calyptia-fluent-bit package for Windows. Calyptia Fluent Bit has two flavours of Windows installers: a ZIP archive (for quick testing) and an EXE installer (for system installation).
Not all plugins are supported on Windows: the CMake configuration shows the default set of supported plugins.
Configuration
Make sure to provide a valid Windows configuration with the installation, a sample one is shown below:
[SERVICE]# Flush# =====# set an interval of seconds before to flush records to a destination flush 5# Daemon# ======# instruct Calyptia Fluent Bit to run in foreground or background mode. daemon Off# Log_Level# =========# Set the verbosity level of the service, values can be:## - error# - warning# - info# - debug# - trace## by default 'info' is set, that means it includes 'error' and 'warning'. log_level info# Parsers File# ============# specify an optional 'Parsers' configuration file parsers_file parsers.conf# Plugins File# ============# specify an optional 'Plugins' configuration file to load external plugins. plugins_file plugins.conf# HTTP Server# ===========# Enable/Disable the built-in HTTP Server for metrics http_server Off http_listen 0.0.0.0 http_port 2020# Storage# =======# Calyptia Fluent Bit can use memory and filesystem buffering based mechanisms## - https://docs.calyptia.com/calyptia-for-fluent-bit/administration/buffering-and-storage## storage metrics# ---------------# publish storage pipeline metrics in '/api/v1/storage'. The metrics are# exported only if the 'http_server' option is enabled.# storage.metrics on[INPUT] Name winlog Channels Setup,Windows PowerShell Interval_Sec 1[OUTPUT] name stdout match *
Installation Packages
You can download the latest package files from the downloads page. Windows downloads are available in .exe, .msi, and .zip formats.
Installing from ZIP archive
Download a ZIP archive from provided URL repository. There are installers for 32-bit and 64-bit environments, so choose one suitable for your environment.
Then you need to expand the ZIP archive. You can do this by clicking "Extract All" on Explorer, or if you're using PowerShell, you can use Expand-Archive cmdlet.
To halt the process, press CTRL-C in the terminal.
Installing from EXE installer
Download an EXE installer from the provided URL repository. There are installers for 32-bit and 64-bit environments, so choose one suitable for your environment.
Double-click the EXE installer you've downloaded. The installation wizard will automatically start.
Click Next and proceed. By default, Calyptia Fluent Bit is installed into C:\Program Files\calyptia-fluent-bit\, so you should be able to launch calyptia-fluent-bit as follows after installation.
Windows services are equivalent to "daemons" in UNIX (i.e. long-running background processes). Calyptia Fluent Bit has native support for Windows Service.
Suppose you have the following installation layout:
To register Calyptia Fluent Bit as a Windows service, you need to execute the following command on Command Prompt. Please be careful that a single space is required after binpath=.