 Hi everyone. Welcome to FluentCon, cloud native logging with Fluentine Fluentbit. My name is Anurag and I'm one of the many open source maintainers for the Fluentbit project. I have the privilege of welcoming all of you amazing people to our virtual conference this year. In the conference we have some amazing speakers. They're all across the industry from retail, from cloud providers, from software engineers, to product managers. And whether those folks are just getting started with their career or they're running at multi-petabyte scale, we have some amazing sessions that go all across the landscape to help you get started with Fluent D and Fluentbit and just learn what others might be doing with the projects. These sessions are going to be broken out into breakout sessions and lightning talks. Be sure to check out the schedule. We also have some live Q&A for the breakout sessions. So, do stay tuned in, participate in the Slack channel. And of course we have two super amazing keynotes. The first with Nicholas Gillan from the United States Air Force, who's the Chief Software Officer there, giving a little perspective about security, which Fluentine Fluentbit and logging are related to. And the second is going to be an amazing fireside chat with Martin Mao, the CEO of Chronosphere about the overall observability and logging perspective. So, before we get into all of those amazing sessions, all those amazing use cases, let's go through a quick recap of the projects Fluentine and Fluentbit and what we can expect just for the roadmap in the coming year. So, just some project and community updates. So, Fluentine turns 10 this year. Yep, so it's been 10 years since the initial release of Fluentine, Fluentbit coming in around 2015. And we've just seen some amazing, amazing momentum thanks to all of you within the community, thanks to all of the users that are adopting it. And of course, thanks to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation for helping users to standardize on it as a logging technology. And Fluentbit now is deployed over 2 million times per day. So, as of this recording, the average download is almost 2.1, 2.2 million times per day, hopefully higher by the time the conference rolls around. And container deployments are out of this world. They're 10 times higher than package deployments. Folks are adopting microservices. They're adopting Kubernetes. They're adopting this for production workloads. And the scale and the download counts just showcase it. Last but not least, this year we've been focusing really heavily on performance updates, new plugins with Fluentbit 1.7 and Fluentine 1.12. So, highly encourage you. If you haven't checked out the latest versions, things are just running well. Try out the new stuff. It's got some really nice things within it. We've also started to incorporate new ways to start engaging with the community. So, you might be used to our Slack channel, which has 5,400 members in it. We have our GitHub. But now we've also introduced a new Discuss Forum. So, feel free to go on there, ask questions. We're trying to build that up alongside our Google groups. So, you have another place to ask questions and get help. We're really building for more vendor neutrality. We feel like that is something that's growing more and more. So, from a community and project standpoint, you'll see us trying to integrate with a lot of different technologies and be that one place where you can use us as a way to route to the technologies that you're choosing and you're adopting within your enterprise, within your software projects, etc. And then the last, which is exciting, is we're continuing to build the automation for FluentBit and FluentD. We have automated benchmarking in place for a couple of backends already for FluentBit. We also have automated end-to-end integration tests. We've been slowly migrating all of our CI systems over to GitHub action. So, you should start to see that in the project more and more. And as you start to take more of a reliance on these projects, having the numbers and backing of the performance to make informed decisions. So, let's talk a little bit about the 2021 roadmap. What's up for FluentBit and FluentD? So, from goals, we have the overall goal best-in-class performance for shipping data. We continue to say we want to give you a lightweight package, give you as fast as possible with using as least resources as we can use. So, whether that's CPU, RAM, how do we make sure we can send the 50,000 messages per second you need? We also have more data types and integrations with open standards. Data is changing. It's no longer just a simple message or a JSON payload. We have new things like metrics and stuff that we're really excited to talk about today. And then, the last is simpler plugin development. There's been, again, a ton of innovation within the CNCF and within the broader ecosystem. How can we make use of it and provide a great experience for you as developers, as users, to build what you need for these pipelines? So, best-in-class performance, what does this mean? With FluentBit, we're continually working. We just released multi-workers, new SSL libraries, improved IO disk performance. That's available now. So, go download, try it out, continually evolving here. And then, with FluentD, we're starting to update all of the plugins to Ruby 3.0 and have an expectation that within Q2 of 2021, we're going to have FluentD released with a package that includes Ruby 3.0. Integration with open standards, projects you've probably heard of over and over, Prometheus, open metrics, open telemetry. And as FluentD and FluentBit users, how do you engage with these ecosystems and how do you route data to these ecosystems? A lot of times, we're seeing that log data and metric data are closely correlated. So, we're announcing brand-new native support for metric handling. That's available now. Native integration with Prometheus, being able to take the data that's running on your containers, your host, and send that to Prometheus in a format that Prometheus understands. The stream processor, so this is live SQL queries on top of FluentBit streams. We're extending that, so you're able to start extracting metrics from log data, start to correlate those two pieces of data together. And then, open telemetry, I think a lot of folks are hearing there's this enormous momentum behind open telemetry. We have a great session later today to talk a little bit about that. But also, from the protocol side and the standards that open telemetry is building, we expect to make sure that FluentBit and FluentD are great citizens of that great protocol. So, that's a little bit of how we're doing some integration here in the next few months. And then, simplifying plug-in development. I think one of the comments that we always hear is, writing C is hard and we get it. We understand and we are not oblivious to that. We want to make sure that it's very simple for you as a developer or as an engineer or as a user to adopt what you need and perform the functionality that you need at the highest performance possible. So, we're planning for WebAssembly integration with FluentBit later this year. Write plugins and go, Rust, Python, JavaScript C, and compile them down to still get the blazing fast performance that you need. So, with that, thank you again to all of the presenters, committers, and attendees, anyone who submitted a session. I highly encourage you to keep participating with so many opportunities within the broader FluentEco system to participate. And we always appreciate all of the users and feedback. And as a maintainer, understanding how you're using those projects is gold for us to help keep contributing and request help from the broader ecosystem. So, again, thank you all and I hope you enjoy the rest of FluentCon. We're going to go ahead and switch into a keynote with a fireside chat with Martin Mao. So, thanks, everyone.