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Project Lightning Talk: Fluent Bit V5 - Eduardo Silva, Maintainer

5:42 · 23 Mar 2026 – 26 Mar 2026 · YouTube

About this talk

This talk covers the advancements in Fluent Bit v5, focusing on how it redefines performance in the telemetry data plane. The speaker, Eduardo Silva, a maintainer of the project, highlights significant architectural changes that facilitate higher throughput, lower latency, and more predictable performance for logs, metrics, and traces. The session also explores how Fluent Bit v5 integrates into contemporary telemetry ecosystems, promoting flexible pipeline configurations while maintaining efficiency and simplicity in operations at scale.