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description: The Production Grade Telemetry Ecosystem
description: The production grade telemetry ecosystem
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# Fluentd & Fluent Bit
# Fluentd and Fluent Bit

Telemetry data processing in general can be complex, and at scale a bit more, that's why [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) was born. Fluentd has become more than a simple tool, it has grown into a fullscale ecosystem that contains SDKs for different languages and sub-projects like [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io).
Telemetry data processing can be complex, especially at scale. That's why
[Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) was created. Fluentd is more than a simple tool,
it's grown into a fullscale ecosystem that contains SDKs for different languages
and subprojects like [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io).

On this page, we will describe the relationship between the [Fluentd](http://fluentd.org) and [Fluent Bit](http://fluentbit.io) open source projects, as a summary we can say both are:
Here, we describe the relationship between the [Fluentd](http://fluentd.org)
and [Fluent Bit](http://fluentbit.io) open source projects.

* Licensed under the terms of Apache License v2.0
* **Graduated** Hosted projects by the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)](https://cncf.io)
* Production Grade solutions: deployed **million** of times every single day.
* **Vendor neutral** and community driven projects
* Widely Adopted by the Industry: trusted by all major companies like AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud and hundreds of others.
Both projects are:

Both projects share a lot of similarities, [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io) is fully designed and built on top of the best ideas of [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) architecture and general design. Choosing which one to use depends on the end-user needs.
- Licensed under the terms of Apache License v2.0.
- Graduated hosted projects by the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)](https://cncf.io).
- Production grade solutions: Deployed millions of times every single day.
- Vendor neutral and community driven.
- Widely adopted by the industry: Trusted by major companies like AWS, Microsoft,
Google Cloud, and hundreds of others.

The projects have many similarities: [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io) is
designed and built on top of the best ideas of [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org)
architecture and general design. Which one you choose depends on your end-users' needs.

The following table describes a comparison of different areas of the projects:

| | Fluentd | Fluent Bit |
| ------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Scope | Containers / Servers | Embedded Linux / Containers / Servers |
| Language | C & Ruby | C |
| Memory | > 60MB | \~1MB |
| Performance | Medium Performance | High Performance |
| Dependencies | Built as a Ruby Gem, it requires a certain number of gems. | Zero dependencies, unless some special plugin requires them. |
| Plugins | More than 1000 external plugins are available | More than 100 built-in plugins are available |
| Attribute | Fluentd | Fluent Bit |
| ------------ | --------------------- | --------------------- |
| Scope | Containers / Servers | Embedded Linux / Containers / Servers |
| Language | C & Ruby | C |
| Memory | Greater than 60 MB | Approximately 1 MB |
| Performance | Medium Performance | High Performance |
| Dependencies | Built as a Ruby Gem, depends on other gems. | Zero dependencies, unless required by a plugin. |
| Plugins | Over 1,000 external plugins available. | Over 100 built-in plugins available. |
| License | [Apache License v2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) | [Apache License v2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) |

Both [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) and [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io) can work as Aggregators or Forwarders, they both can complement each other or use them as standalone solutions.\
\
In the recent years, Cloud Providers switched from Fluentd to Fluent Bit for performance and compatibility reasons. Fluent Bit is now considered the **next generation** solution.
Both [Fluentd](https://www.fluentd.org) and [Fluent Bit](https://fluentbit.io)
can work as Aggregators or Forwarders, and can complement each other or be used
as standalone solutions.

In the recent years, cloud providers have switched from Fluentd to Fluent Bit for
performance and compatibility. Fluent Bit is now considered the next-generation solution.