Can't start Fluent Bit on Windows: error 1067

[XSchelin]

Bug Report

Describe the bug
I can't start the service, though I'm following the installation and configuration instructions exactly:

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/installation/windows

I deployed it to C:\fluent-bit\ so as to avoid the "space in the path" issue.

To Reproduce

• Steps to reproduce the problem:

C:\Windows\system32>sc.exe create fluent-bit binpath= "C:\fluent-bit\bin\fluent-bit.exe -c C:\fluent-bit\conf\fluent-bit.conf"
[SC] CreateService SUCCESS

C:\Windows\system32>sc.exe start fluent-bit

SERVICE_NAME: fluent-bit
        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        STATE              : 2  START_PENDING
                                (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x7d0
        PID                : 2428
        FLAGS      

C:\Windows\system32>sc.exe query fluent-bit

SERVICE_NAME: fluent-bit
        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        STATE              : 1  STOPPED
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 1067  (0x42b)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0

Your Environment

• Downloaded the file fluent-bit-3.1.9-win64.exe
• On WIndows Server 2022 64-bit, not ARM

The config file, with the comments stripped for brevity:

[SERVICE]
    flush        1
    daemon       Off
    log_level    info
    parsers_file parsers.conf
    plugins_file plugins.conf
    http_server  Off
    http_listen  0.0.0.0
    http_port    2020
    storage.metrics on

[INPUT]
    Name         winlog
    Channels     Setup,Windows PowerShell
    Interval_Sec 1
    DB           winlog.sqlite

[OUTPUT]
    name  stdout
    match *

[eta] I don't have a Fluent Bit log file because it has to be running for there to be a log file, doesn't it?

[XSchelin]

Correction, I can see an issue. When I run C:\fluent-bit\bin\fluent-bit.exe -c C:\fluent-bit\conf\fluent-bit.conf directly, I get:

[2024/11/01 10:26:27] [error] reading line is exceeded to the limit size of 33554432. Current size is: 67108864
[2024/11/01 10:26:27] [error] configuration file contains errors, aborting.

Which is a new one on me!