v2.1.7

KNOWLEDGE BASE

NOTE: This is a minor hotfix release that covers for corner cases for metrics handling. We keep same release notes as part of v2

Release Notes v2.1.7

Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Data Processor and Forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX. We are proud to announce the availability of Fluent Bit v2.1.7.

Introduction

Fluent Bit v2.1 is the start of the new stable series of the project. During the last months our primary focus has been around extending support for Metrics, Traces and improving performance, among many others.

• Core

  • upstream: fix logic to restrict number of connections with net.max_worker_connections option
  • core: fix up boolean conversion logic (#7618)
  • log_event_decoder: fix handling of results states and extend API
  • custom_calyptia: use verbose code to pass TLS parameters to fleet plugin.
  • custom_calyptia: set defaults for calyptia fleet.
  • downstream: fixed the event loop registration detection mechanism
  • utils: plugin: freeing properly for duplicated string shared properties (#7464)
  • config_format: yaml: fix ‘customs’ section handling(#7559)

• Libs:

  • cmetrics: upgrade to v0.6.3
  • wamr: Upgrade the bundled WAMR version to 1.2.2

• Plugins

  • Kubernetes_Filter (Input)
    • Fix leak on exception
  • Windows_Exporter_Metrics (Input)
    • Handle we.service.include and we.service.exclude options to construct where clause
    • Prevent to operate service metrics when terminating
    • Display errored property name
    • Implement windows service metrics
  • Splunk (Input)
    • Implement new Splunk HEC input plugin (#7349)
  • Node_Exporter_Metrics (Input)
    • Update metrics value only if succeeded
    • Handle missing throttle metrics case such as vm
  • Elasticsearch (Input)
    • Provide version parameter for configurable server version (#7579)
  • Podman_Metrics (Input)
    • Fixed reading undefined PID
  • Kubernetes_Events (Input)
    • Call destructor when init failed
    • Remove unnecessary type check
    • Allow setting kube_token_file as empty for use with kubectl proxy.
    • Allow listening to a single namespace with the ‘namespace’ parameter.
    • Increase lookup interval to 500 milliseconds.
  • Exec_Wasi (Input)
    • Add error message
    • Fix possible null deref
  • Rewrite_Tag (Filter)
    • Fix potential null dereference
  • Stackdriver (Output)
    • Support gzip compression with the new compress option (#7101)
  • Stdout (Output)
    • Modify to check decoding result
  • Gelf (Output)
    • Fix releasing function handling (#7640)
  • Chronicle (Output)
    • Implement new Google Chronicle output plugin (#7232)
  • Syslog (Output)
    • Check error after flb_log_event_decoder_next (#7639)

Join us

We want to hear about you, our community is growing and you can be part of it!, you can contact us at:

• Github: http://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit
• Slack: http://slack.fluentd.org
• Twitter: @fluentbit