Tag: Logging

Docker includes multiple logging mechanisms to help you get information from running containers and services. These mechanisms are called logging drivers. Each Docker daemon has a default logging driver, which each container uses unless you configure it to use a different logging driver, or “log-driver” for short.

STEPS :-

Configure Docker to user Syslog

• vim /etc/rsyslog.conf

In the file editor, uncomment the two lines under `Provides UDP syslog reception` by removing `#`.

#ModLoad imudp

#UDPServerRun 514

Then

systemctl start rsyslog

• Now that syslog is running, let’s configure Docker to use syslog as the default logging driver. We’ll do this by creating a file called daemon.json

sudo mkdir /etc/docker

vi /etc/docker/daemon.json

{ "log-driver":

"syslog",

"log-opts": {

"syslog-address": "udp://<PRIVATE_IP>:514" }

}

Then

systemctl start docker

Time to use for docker

For example , first method

docker container run -d --name syslog-logging httpd

Check by

docker logs syslog-logging

Or

tail /var/log/messages

second way to use the enable logging

docker container run -d --name json-logging --log-driver json-file httpd

Check

docker logs json-logging

Docker power 👌

Enjoy

Osama