Core Agent

In addition to creating comprehensive custom pipelines, you can deploy your own agent to collect observability data. Core Agent (opens in a new tab) is an enterprise version of Fluent Bit with support for Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and more.

You can either send data directly from Core Agent to the observability platform of your choice, or send data from Core Agent to an intermediary pipeline before it reaches its final destination. The latter method lets you take advantage of features like processing rules

Core Agent documentation

For information about setting up and using Core Agent, refer to the Core Agent documentation (opens in a new tab).

Fleet management

After you've deployed Core Agent or Fluent Bit, you can use Telemetry Pipeline fleet management (opens in a new tab) to maintain multiple agents as a unified fleet. Learn how to:

• Get started with fleet management
• Create a fleet
• Add an agent to a fleet
• Configure your fleet