Send data from Fluent Bit to Axiom

This page explains how to send data from Fluent Bit to Axiom.

Fluent Bit is an open-source log processor and forwarder that allows you to collect any data like metrics and logs from different sources, enrich them with filters, and send them to multiple destinations like Axiom.

Prerequisites

• Create an Axiom account.
• Create a dataset in Axiom where you send your data.
• Create an API token in Axiom with permissions to ingest data to the dataset you have created.

• Install Fluent Bit.

Configure Fluent Bit

1. Set up the Fluent Bit configuration file based on the Fluent Bit documentation.

2. In the Fluent Bit configuration file, use the HTTP output plugin with the following configuration. For more information on the plugin, see the Fluent Bit documentation.

   [OUTPUT]
       Name               http
       Match              *
       Host               AXIOM_DOMAIN
       Port               443
       URI                /v1/ingest/DATASET_NAME
       Header             Authorization Bearer API_TOKEN
       Compress           gzip
       Format             json
       JSON_Date_Key      _time
       JSON_Date_Format   iso8601
       TLS                On
   

Replace AXIOM_DOMAIN with the base domain of your edge deployment. For more information, see Edge deployments.

Replace API_TOKEN with the Axiom API token you have generated. For added security, store the API token in an environment variable.

Replace DATASET_NAME with the name of the Axiom dataset where you send your data.