Fluxtail
Features

Fluxtail features for ingest, search, alerts, and AI

Send logs over HTTP, syslog, OTLP/OpenTelemetry, GELF, Kubernetes agents, Fluent Bit, rsyslog/syslog-ng, or client libraries. Then read streams with live tail, filters, facets, histograms, alerts, scoped tokens, MCP diagnostics, and AI-assisted analysis.

Feature map
HTTP
HTTP API and clients

JSON batches plus Go, Python, PHP, NestJS, Node.js, Java, Rust, and .NET libraries.

Syslog
Syslog

RFC 3164/5424, rsyslog, syslog-ng, receiver ports, and stream routing.

OTLP
OpenTelemetry

OTLP logs with service context, trace IDs, span IDs, and telemetry fields.

GELF
GELF

Application log payloads for stacks that already emit Graylog-style events.

K8s
Kubernetes and Fluent Bit

DaemonSet collection, Fluent Bit forwarding, pod metadata, and cluster filters.

MCP
AI diagnostics

Exception search, error summaries, receiver health checks, no-log diagnostics, and AI chat.

Feature groups

Collect, read, and summarize logs

01

Ingest from protocols and libraries

Use HTTP JSON batches, syslog, OTLP/OpenTelemetry, GELF, Kubernetes agents, Fluent Bit, rsyslog/syslog-ng, or application clients for Go, Python, PHP, NestJS, Node.js, Java, Rust, and .NET.

02

Read streams with filters and history

Use streams and receivers, live tail, multi-stream scope, host/app/severity filters, labels, Kubernetes filters, histograms, facets, historical windows, and bounded rendering for noisy bursts.

03

Control access, alerts, and AI diagnostics

Use scoped access tokens, hosted OAuth MCP, receiver health checks, usage and quota alerts, exception search, error summaries, no-log diagnostics, and built-in AI chat for investigation.

Start here

Choose by source or task

Use the links below for protocol intake, collector setup, live reading, and AI-assisted diagnostics.

Features

Browse Fluxtail feature pages

Open the Fluxtail feature page for the source, protocol, or log-reading task you care about.

Syslog server

Fluxtail acts as a central syslog server for hosts, VMs, appliances, routers, firewalls, rsyslog, syslog-ng, and legacy services. Create a syslog receiver, point senders at the assigned host and port, then inspect live rows by host, app, severity, message, and time.

Syslog server rsyslog syslog-ng

OpenTelemetry logging

OpenTelemetry logging is most useful when logs keep service identity, environment, severity, body fields, trace_id, and span_id. Fluxtail receives OTel-style telemetry logs, keeps common fields searchable when present, and makes them readable through live tail, filters, facets, histograms, alerts, MCP diagnostics, and AI chat.

OpenTelemetry logging OTel logs Trace context

OTLP logs

Create the matching OTLP HTTP or OTLP gRPC receiver, copy its endpoint, and authenticate with its receiver-bound token. Fluxtail accepts OTLP logs over HTTP JSON, HTTP protobuf, or gRPC. These receivers do not accept traces or metrics.

OTLP logs OpenTelemetry Collectors

Kubernetes logging

Kubernetes logging is useful when pod, container, namespace, node, service, and label context survive collection. Fluxtail receives cluster logs into streams and keeps those fields available for live tail, filters, facets, histograms, alerts, MCP diagnostics, and AI chat.

Kubernetes logging Pod logs Container logs

AI log analysis

Use AI log analysis in Fluxtail to group repeated failures, summarize a bounded time window, check receiver health, and jump back into the raw log rows that support the answer.

MCP Built-in AI chat Exception clustering

Live log viewer

Watch active production logs in Fluxtail as they arrive. Use live tail to confirm receivers are accepting traffic, follow deploy output, filter noisy streams, inspect rows, and debug failures while they are still happening.

Live tail Readable rows Fast filters
Next step

Plan one real source

Choose one syslog, OTLP, Kubernetes, or application source, then join the waitlist to request access.

Join the waitlist with one real source in mind.

Fluxtail Engineering will confirm access before setup begins.

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