[3] According to Suonsyrjä and Mikkonen, the "core idea of Fluentd is to be the unifying layer between different types of log inputs and outputs.

[5] Fluentd was created by Sadayuki Furuhashi as a project of the Mountain View-based firm Treasure Data.

Written primarily in Ruby, its source code was released as open-source software in October 2011.

[9] Fluentd was one of the data collection tools recommended by Amazon Web Services in 2013, when it was said to be similar to Apache Flume or Scribe.

Fluent Bit is written only in C, with no dependencies, and consumes approximately one megabyte of memory, making it easier to run under embedded Linux and in containers.