# Fluent Bit Loki chart

DEPRECATED. Please use the official Fluent-Bit chart at https://github.com/fluent/helm-charts.

This chart install the Fluent Bit application to ship logs to Loki. It defines daemonset on a [Kubernetes](http://kubernetes.io) cluster using the [Helm](https://helm.sh) package manager.

## Get Repo Info

```console
helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
```

_See [helm repo](https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_repo/) for command documentation._

## Installing the Chart

> If you don't have `Helm` installed locally, or `Tiller` installed in your Kubernetes cluster, read the [Using Helm](https://docs.helm.sh/using_helm/) documentation to get started.
To install the chart with the release name `my-release` using our helm repository:

```bash
helm repo add grafana https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts
helm upgrade --install my-release grafana/fluent-bit \
    --set loki.serviceName=loki.default.svc.cluster.local
```

If you deploy Loki with a custom namespace or service name, you must change the value above for `loki.serviceName` to the appropriate value.

The command deploys Fluent Bit on the Kubernetes cluster with the default configuration. The [configuration](#configuration) section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.

To configure the chart to send to [Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/products/cloud) use:

```bash
helm upgrade --install my-release grafana/fluent-bit \
    --set loki.serviceName=logs-us-west1.grafana.net,loki.servicePort=80,loki.serviceScheme=https \
    --set loki.user=2830,loki.password=1234
```

> **Tip**: List all releases using `helm list`

To install a custom tag use the following command:

```bash
helm upgrade --install my-release grafana/fluent-bit \
    --set image.tag=<custom tag>
```

The full list of available tags on [docker hub](https://cloud.docker.com/u/grafana/repository/docker/grafana/fluent-bit-plugin-loki).

Alternatively you can install the full [Loki stack](../loki-stack) (Loki + Fluent Bit) using:

```bash
helm upgrade --install my-release grafana/loki-stack \
    --set fluent-bit.enabled=true,promtail.enabled=false
```

This will automatically configured the `loki.serviceName` configuration field to the newly created Loki instance.

## RBAC

By default, `rbac.create` is set to true. This enable RBAC support in Fluent Bit and must be true if RBAC is enabled in your cluster.

The chart will take care of creating the required service accounts and roles for Fluent Bit.

If you have RBAC disabled, or to put it another way, ABAC enabled, you should set this value to `false`.

## Uninstalling the Chart

To uninstall/delete the `my-release` deployment:

```bash
helm delete my-release
```

The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.

## Configuration

The following tables lists the configurable parameters of the Fluent Bit chart and their default values.

For more details, read the [Fluent Bit documentation](../../../cmd/fluent-bit/README.md)

| Parameter                | Description                                                                                        | Default                          |
|--------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| `loki.serviceName`       | The address of the Loki service.                                                                   | `"${RELEASE}-loki"`              |
| `loki.servicePort`       | The port of the Loki service.                                                                      | `3100`                           |
| `loki.serviceScheme`     | The scheme of the Loki service.                                                                    | `http`                           |
| `loki.user`              | The http basic auth username to access the Loki service.                                           |                                  |
| `loki.password`          | The http basic auth password to access the Loki service.                                           |                                  |
| `config.port`            | the Fluent Bit port to listen. (This is mainly used to serve metrics)                              | `2020`                           |
| `config.tenantID`        | The tenantID used by default to push logs to Loki                                                  | `''`                             |
| `config.batchWait`       | Time to wait before send a log batch to Loki, full or not. (unit: secs)                            | `1`                              |
| `config.batchSize`       | Log batch size to send a log batch to Loki. (unit: bytes)                                          | `10240` (10KiB)                  |
| `config.loglevel`        | the Fluent Bit log level (debug,info,warn,error).                                                  | `warn`                           |
| `config.lineFormat`      | The line format to use to send a record (json/key_value)                                           | `json`                           |
| `config.k8sLoggingParser`| Allow Kubernetes Pods to suggest a pre-defined Parser. See [Official Fluent Bit documentation](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/filter/kubernetes#kubernetes-annotations).                                                                                      | `Off`                           |
| `config.k8sLoggingExclude`| Allow Kubernetes Pods to exclude their logs from the log processor. See [Official Fluent Bit documentation](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/filters/kubernetes)                                                                                             | `Off`
| `config.memBufLimit`     | Override the default  Mem_Buf_Limit [Official Fluent Bit documentation](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/administration/backpressure#mem_buf_limit) | `5MB`
| `config.removeKeys`      | The list of key to remove from each record                                                         | `[removeKeys,stream]`            |
| `config.labels`          | A set of labels to send for every log                                                              | `'{job="fluent-bit"}'`           |
| `config.autoKubernetesLabels` | If set to true, it will add all Kubernetes labels to Loki labels                                   | `false`                          |
| `config.labelMap`        | Mapping of labels from a record. See [Fluent Bit documentation](../../../cmd/fluent-bit/README.md) |                                  |
| `config.parsers`         | Definition of extras fluent bit parsers. See [Official Fluent Bit documentation](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/filter/parser). The format is a sequence of mappings where each key is the same as the one in the [PARSER] section of parsers.conf file       | `[]`                            |
| `config.extraOutputs`    | Definition of extras fluent bit outputs. See [Official Fluent Bit documentation](https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/outputs/). The format is a sequence of mappings where each key is the same as the one in the [OUTPUT]                                | `[]`                            |
| `affinity`               | [affinity][affinity] settings for pod assignment                                                   | `{}`                             |
| `annotations`            | Annotations to add to Kubernetes resources.                                                        | `{}`                             |
| `deploymentStrategy`     | The deployment strategy to use with the daemonset                                                  | `RollingUpdate`                  |
| `image.repository`       | The Fluent Bit docker image repository                                                             | `grafana/fluent-bit-plugin-loki` |
| `image.tag`              | The Fluent Bit docker image tag                                                                    | `0.1`                            |
| `image.pullPolicy`       | The Fluent Bit docker image pull policy                                                            | `IfNotPresent`                   |
| `nodeSelector`           | Fluent Bit [node labels][nodeSelector] for pod assignment                                          | `{}`                             |
| `podLabels`              | additional Fluent Bit pod labels                                                                   | `{}`                             |
| `podAnnotations`         | additional Fluent Bit pod annotations                                                              | `Prometheus discovery`           |
| `rbac.create`            | Activate support for RBAC                                                                          | `true`                           |
| `resources`              | Resource requests/limit                                                                            |                                  |
| `tolerations`            | [Toleration][toleration] labels for pod assignment                                                 | `no schedule on master nodes`    |
| `volumes`                | [Volume]([volumes]) to mount                                                                       | `host containers log`            |
| `volumeMounts`           | Volume mount mapping                                                                               |                                  |
| `serviceMonitor.enabled` | Create a [Prometheus Operator](operator) serviceMonitor resource for Fluent Bit                    | `false`                          |


[toleration]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/taint-and-toleration/
[nodeSelector]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#nodeselector
[affinity]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#affinity-and-anti-affinity
[volumes]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/
[operator]: https://github.com/coreos/prometheus-operator
