[FireLens] [request]: FireLens/Fluent Bit as a unified observability solution
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Description
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**Tell us about your request**
At the moment, users often run 2 - 3 side cars or daemons for observability. Fluent Bit/FireLens takes care of logs, but then you need a metrics agent and a tracing agent. This proliferation of agents adds management overhead.
We are evaluating turning Fluent Bit into a more general observability solution. The community is already working on a [Statsd input support](https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/pull/1756).
This idea is very early-stage; please give us your thoughts and let us know if you think it would be valuable.
**Which service(s) is this request for?**
Fargate, EKS, ECS
**Update: Please see the comments, plans have changed. AWS Distro for OT will be our unified router.**
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Research direction
Start by reading the six issue comments and the update stating that plans changed. The request is an early-stage proposal with no files, tests, or implementation entry point named; determine whether it is still applicable or has been superseded by AWS Distro for OT.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws
- Domain
- cloud, observability
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100