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Fluent BitMetricbeat
Free

Free and open source.

 Free

Free to download; Elastic Cloud hosting is a paid option.

Linux, Self-hosted Windows, Linux, Command line
  • Small footprint for an agent
  • Native OpenTelemetry input and output
  • Ready-made modules for common services like Apache, Redis and NGINX
  • Packages for apt, yum, Docker and Kubernetes
  • Only a pipeline; needs a separate backend to store and view data
  • Configuration takes some learning
  • Most useful alongside Elasticsearch and Kibana
  • Default build is under the source-available Elastic License
Downloadable app, Self-hosted Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License not stated License: Apache-2.0 (OSS build); Elastic License (default build)
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 24, 2026

Checked October 1, 2026

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