confd

Logstash and confd

Making a dynamic Logstash container with confd.

Austin Burnett

8 minute read

In my last post I talked about making your application containers more portable in regards to logging. The way my team ended up doing this was by shipping a container along with our application container that served as a data container to mount application logs to and having Logstash run in that container with application logs as the input. I mentioned in the previous post that I had found adding as much information to the logs as you can at the source will alleviate problems later. After having…