Logs and Telemetry

8 Stream processors for time series calculations and filtering

This chapter covers

• Learning some core ideas about stream analytics
• Querying data streams created by Fluent Bit
• Exploring the SQL-like syntax provided for streaming analytics
• Creating new outputs based on Fluent Bit inputs

Let’s start by orienting ourselves in the Fluent Bit landscape, seeing how this chapter fits into our technology landscape.

8.1 Architectural context

Figure 8.1 gives us some immediate insights into what we can do with streaming, with the flow going back to an input. Similarly, we can output stream-processing results to the relevant output plugins. Before we can look at that, however, we need to understand the key ideas involved.

Figure 8.1 Representation ...