New Relic’s open programmable platform ensures you can ingest any text based data or data that can be converted to text whether it’s on-prem or in the cloud. New Relic provides a native infrastructure agent to send logs, but also supports a variety of third party and open source tools based on your individual needs including Fluent bit, Fluentd, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Logstash, and more.
Using the New Relic Logs UI you can configure output plugins for Fluentd, AWS CloudWatch, Logstash, Fluent Bit, and AWS FireLens. Data can be filtered from the forwarder/shipper and New Relic also supports data parsing and filtering on ingestion. In either case, filtered data that is not written into the underlying NRDB database reduces license volume.