Announcing AWS for Fluent Bit 3.0.0 based on Fluent Bit 4.1.0

AWS for Fluent Bit 3.0.0 Release

AWS for Fluent Bit announces version 3.0.0, based on Fluent Bit version 4.1.0 and Amazon Linux 2023. This release enhances container logging performance and feature-richness for AWS customers using Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

Key updates include:

• Performance Improvements: Faster JSON parsing and more logs processed per vCPU with lower latency.
• Security Enhancements: TLS min version and cipher controls for stronger protocol posture.
• New Features: Native OpenTelemetry (OTel) support for OTLP logs, metrics, and traces with AWS SigV4 authentication.

What to do

• Update the FireLens log-router container image in your ECS task definition to the 3.0.0 tag.
• Upgrade your EKS deployment by updating the Helm release or setting the DaemonSet image to the 3.0.0 version.

Source: AWS release notes