Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

The Amazon Kinesis Data Streams output plugin allows to ingest your records into the Kinesis service.

This is the documentation for the core Fluent Bit Kinesis plugin written in C. It has all the core features of the Golang Fluent Bit plugin released in 2019. The Golang plugin was named ; this new high performance and highly efficient kinesis plugin is called kinesis_streams to prevent conflicts/confusion.

See here for details on how AWS credentials are fetched.

Getting Started

In order to send records into Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file:

The kinesis_streams plugin, can read the parameters from the command line through the -p argument (property), e.g:

[OUTPUT]
    Match *
    region us-east-1
    stream my-stream

Fluent Bit 1.7 adds a new feature called which enables outputs to have dedicated threads. This kinesis_streams plugin fully supports workers.

Example:

If you enable a single worker, you are enabling a dedicated thread for your Kinesis output. We recommend starting with without workers, evaluating the performance, and then adding workers one at a time until you reach your desired/needed throughput. For most users, no workers or a single worker will be sufficient.

Amazon distributes a container image with Fluent Bit and these plugins.

GitHub

Amazon ECR Public Gallery

docker pull public.ecr.aws/aws-observability/aws-for-fluent-bit:<tag>

For example, you can pull the image with latest version by:

If you see errors for image pull limits, try log into public ECR with your AWS credentials:

aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws

You can check the Amazon ECR Public official doc for more details.

Docker Hub

amazon/aws-for-fluent-bit

Amazon ECR

You can use our SSM Public Parameters to find the Amazon ECR image URI in your region:

For more see the AWS for Fluent Bit github repo.