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Adds official documentation for Fluent Typed Scripting (FTS), taking users from a reproducible first log transformation to the typed-value and signal-specific references. Documents the configuration name fts and describes policies in Lua with typed access to telemetry, without implying static typing of Lua.

The eleven-page guide covers configuration, typed values and lifetimes, logs, metrics and deliberate series aggregation, traces, common helpers, rollback and runtime limits, comparison with the Lua filter, and complete log/metric/span recipes. Adds navigation under Processors and discovery links from related pages.

Availability follows the current 5.2 development implementation rather than claiming an unverified released minimum. Native support is distinguished from experimental browser WASM. The guide explains separate processor entries and scripts per signal, key-redaction limits, and that the sandbox is not a security boundary.

Validation:

  • All 35 code fences exercised directly from Markdown: 19 Lua, 6 YAML, 6 shell, and 4 JSON.
  • 43 local pytest cases passed natively; the same 43 passed under strict Valgrind. All 42 Fluent Bit process reports had zero memory errors.
  • Tested against native Fluent Bit 5.2.0 at 7ea6759f26d0ebdaa0acb677eb68aa63e4c0d549, including native JIT startup and invalid configuration rejection.
  • Focused FTS internal test passed; four rollback integration cases passed normally and under strict Valgrind.
  • New pages pass Markdownlint; Vale reports no warnings or errors. All 83 checked link occurrences pass. Navigation titles and whitespace checks pass.

The local test harness and artifacts are outside both repositories and are intentionally excluded from this PR. The repository's configuration extractor does not recognize the plain YAML fences used by these processor pages; the local harness executes the actual configurations and scripts together instead. Related-page Markdownlint findings are limited to existing tracking images. Browser WASM execution and GitBook rendering were not validated.

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  • Documentation
    • Added comprehensive Fluent Typed Scripting (FTS) guides for configuration, typed values, logs, metrics, traces, helpers, limits, and Lua filter comparisons.
    • Added a quickstart and practical recipes for redacting logs, transforming metrics, and updating traces.
    • Added FTS links throughout processor documentation, including guidance for metric normalization and OpenTelemetry envelope transformations.
    • Clarified FTS availability, runtime limitations, error handling, and migration considerations.

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <edsiper@gmail.com>
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Minor Expand FTS on first use.
Minor Correct the group batching statement.

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Review comments at
@pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/common-helpers.md:
- Line 3: Update the introductory description in the common-helpers
documentation to spell out “Fluent Typed Scripting” before using the acronym,
using “Fluent Typed Scripting (FTS)” while preserving the existing
module-loading and helper references.

Review comments at
@pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/errors-and-limits.md:
- Line 40: Update the batching explanation in the processing-batch paragraph to
distinguish groups kept together within one input append from groups that remain
open across appends and batches. State that records received inside a group
opened in an earlier batch do not receive a context view.
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Walkthrough

The changes add documentation for Fluent Typed Scripting (FTS), including configuration, typed values, helpers, runtime limits, signal-specific guidance, and recipes. Existing processor and Lua filter documentation also gains FTS references.

Changes: Fluent Typed Scripting documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
FTS entry points and placement
SUMMARY.md, pipeline/processors.md, pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting.md, pipeline/filters/lua.md, pipeline/processors/metrics-selector.md, pipeline/processors/opentelemetry-envelope.md
The processor pages introduce FTS and link to its guides. The Lua filter, metrics selector, and OpenTelemetry envelope pages add FTS guidance.
Configuration and runtime behavior
pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/configuration.md, pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/errors-and-limits.md
The guides document configuration, per-signal instances, startup validation, callback outcomes, rollback, runtime limits, and diagnostics.
Typed values and common helpers
pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/typed-values.md, pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/common-helpers.md
The references describe typed value access, conversion, construction, and lifetimes, plus helpers for redaction, key filtering, JSON and time parsing, and callback results.
Log processing and quickstart
pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/logs.md, pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/quickstart.md, pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/recipes.md
The log guide covers callback behavior, properties, timestamps, and OpenTelemetry context. The quickstart and log recipe show configuration, policy behavior, and sample output.
Metric processing and recipe
pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/metrics.md, pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/recipes.md
The metrics guide documents family callbacks, data constraints, helpers, scaling, and aggregation. A recipe demonstrates metric renaming, scaling, and aggregation.
Trace processing and recipe
pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/traces.md, pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/recipes.md
The trace guide documents span callbacks, editable properties, events, links, and topology limits. A recipe demonstrates span transformations and redaction.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: patrick-stephens, eschabell

Merge Risk: Low · up to 454a1

The batching guide can mislead users about context availability for groups spanning appends. Correct the wording before relying on it.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting.md: 1

1-1: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Resolve the Vale heading warnings.

Vale reports sentence-style capitalization warnings for both headings. Update the headings to the capitalization accepted by the repository’s FluentBit.Headings rule while preserving FTS as the acronym.

Also applies to: 19-19

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Review comment at @pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting.md at line 1:
Update both headings in the Fluent Typed Scripting documentation to use the
capitalization required by the repository’s FluentBit.Headings rule, preserving
FTS as an acronym.

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pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/configuration.md: 1

3-3: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Resolve the reported Vale warnings.

Vale flags unexpanded FTS and JIT terms on this standalone page. Write Fluent Typed Scripting (FTS) at Line 3 and expand JIT at its first use in Line 12. Vale also flags it is in Line 20 under the repository contraction rule.

Also applies to: 12-12, 20-20, 67-67

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Review comment at @pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/configuration.md
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Update the standalone configuration documentation to expand FTS and JIT at their
first uses, replace the contraction flagged at the later prose occurrence, and
resolve the additional Vale warning on the page. Preserve the existing
configuration guidance and pipeline reference.

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pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/metrics.md-11-11: 1

11-11: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

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Complete the metric.datapoints description.

The text Can be replaced with another typed array. has no subject. Change it to The array can be replaced with another typed array.

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Review comments at
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- Line 3: Update the introductory description in the common-helpers
documentation to spell out “Fluent Typed Scripting” before using the acronym,
using “Fluent Typed Scripting (FTS)” while preserving the existing
module-loading and helper references.

Review comments at
@pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/errors-and-limits.md:
- Line 40: Update the batching explanation in the processing-batch paragraph to
distinguish groups kept together within one input append from groups that remain
open across appends and batches. State that records received inside a group
opened in an earlier batch do not receive a context view.

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Review comments at @pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting.md:
- Line 1: Update both headings in the Fluent Typed Scripting documentation to
use the capitalization required by the repository’s FluentBit.Headings rule,
preserving FTS as an acronym.

Review comments at @pipeline/processors/fluent-typed-scripting/configuration.md:
- Line 3: Update the standalone configuration documentation to expand FTS and
JIT at their first uses, replace the contraction flagged at the later prose
occurrence, and resolve the additional Vale warning on the page. Preserve the
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# Common helpers

Load the FTS module with `local fb = require("fluentbit")`. The following helpers operate on typed values. For signal-specific helpers, see [Logs](logs.md#log-helpers) and [Metrics](metrics.md#metric-helpers). See [Typed values](typed-values.md#constructors-and-conversions) for constructors.

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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Expand FTS on first use.

Line 3 uses FTS without spelling out Fluent Typed Scripting. Write Fluent Typed Scripting (FTS) before using the acronym. Vale reports this usage through FluentBit.Acronyms.

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out “Fluent Typed Scripting” before using the acronym, using “Fluent Typed
Scripting (FTS)” while preserving the existing module-loading and helper
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Internal failures, such as a batch that can't be decoded, apply `error_mode` to the whole batch.

A processing batch isn't the same as a callback invocation: one batch can invoke the callback many times. Small chunks are processed as one batch. Larger log buffers, including chunks passed to output processors, are processed in batches of about 64 KiB or 1,024 records. Groups aren't split across batches, so a group can exceed those targets. See [Logs](logs.md#opentelemetry-context) for context behavior when groups span appends.

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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Correct the group batching statement.

Distinguish groups within one input append from groups that remain open across input appends and batches. Limit the context-view limitation to records received inside a group opened in an earlier batch.

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- Larger log buffers, including chunks passed to output processors, are processed in batches of about 64 KiB or 1,024 records. Groups aren't split across batches, so a group can exceed those targets.
+ Larger log buffers, including chunks passed to output processors, are processed in batches of about 64 KiB or 1,024 records. Groups stay together within an input append, so a group can exceed those targets. A group can remain open across input appends and batches. Records received inside a group opened in an earlier batch do not receive a context view.
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Context: ...) for context behavior when groups span appends. ## Value and format limits - Typed values ...

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Update the batching explanation in the processing-batch paragraph to distinguish
groups kept together within one input append from groups that remain open across
appends and batches. State that records received inside a group opened in an
earlier batch do not receive a context view.

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