Fluent Bit is a powerful and efficient telemetry agent, but relying on defaults without optimizing its configuration environment can lead to trouble with backpressure - caused by heavy loads, network congestion, or misconfigurations can degrade performance, lead to data loss, and destabilize systems. What many engineers don’t realize is how early backpressure issues can be detected and fixed before escalating into costly outages!

Backed by years of experience supporting Fluent Bit across enterprise environments, this session shares production-tested tactics ensuring pipeline performance at scale. We’ll break down the mechanics of Fluent Bit backpressure - what causes it and how to catch it early with detection, debugging, and dialing in config strategies. Attendees leave with playbooks for solving backpressure problems with Fluent Bit in your system. An extra bonus, attendees are given a hands-on, self-paced, workshop to explore at https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-fluentbit.