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In addition to creating comprehensive custom pipelines, you can deploy a standalone agent to collect observability data. Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline supports these agent types:
You can either send data directly from an agent to the destination of your choice, or send data from an agent to an intermediary pipeline before it reaches its final destination. The latter method lets you take advantage of features like processing rules.

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Fluent Bit

Fluent Bit is a lightweight, open source telemetry agent for logs, metrics, and traces. Although Chronosphere now sponsors its development, Fluent Bit is a CNCF graduated sub-project and remains licensed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0. For information about setting up and using Fluent Bit, refer to the Fluent Bit documentation.

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Core Agent

Core Agent is an enterprise fork of Fluent Bit available to Chronosphere customers. It offers extended support for maintenance and security fixes. To compare versions of Fluent Bit and Core Agent, see Version equivalents. For information about installing Core Agent, refer to the following pages: For all other information about using Core Agent, refer to the equivalent Fluent Bit documentation.