Comment on Looking for a logging solution

rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not clear in the post I guess so I’ll try to be more clear here.

  • I’m using Seq for my centralized logging.
  • The logs I get from most of my containers are not in GELF format. I cannot change that unless I change how logging works in all the programs I use. So I’ll need to edit every the source code and compile or ask each project to update their logging and output to GELF.
  • They are all shown as errors or info. It depends on the container because some send their logging info to stderr and some to stdout.
  • I’m looking for something that can intercept those logs from my other containers, format them to GELF, and send the formatted logs to Seq.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No I get what you’re asking for I’m just mentioning that sometimes it’s easier to use an application that can read multiple formats than it is to try to finagle everything back into one format.

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    • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but the thing is I have it set up to read the logs being sent out from my Docker containers. Even though I’ve set the containers to output using the GELF driver they don’t really do that. The log messages my container send are not in GELF format so I have to find a way to fix that.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Best of luck with it, logging’s always a severe pain in the ass.

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