Capturing logs at scale with Fluent Bit and Amazon EKS | Amazon Web Services

Containers Capturing logs at scale with Fluent Bit and Amazon EKS Earlier this year, AWS support engineers noticed an uptick in customers experiencing Kubernetes API server slowness with their Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. Seasoned Kubernetes users know that a slow Kubernetes API server is often indicative of a large, overloaded cluster or a malfunctioning controller. On

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“Fluent Bit added a new filter: Use_Kubelet. When this filter is set to true, Fluent Bit DaemonSets query the kubelet of the node they are operating to fetch metadata. When enabled, this filter reduces the load on kube-apiserver, and improves cluster’s scalability. ”