EFK Driver

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  • What is the EFK Stack ?

This guide explains how you can send your logs to a centralized log management system like Graylog, Logstash (inside the Elastic Stack or ELK - Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or Fluentd (inside EFK - Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana). EFK has been carving out a reputation for stellar, award-winning work in higher education, healthcare, and finance, with an emphasis on Gen Z and Millennial audiences. British drivers take. Parameters for the EFK deployment may be specified in the form of a ConfigMap, a secret, or template parameters (which are passed to the deployer in environment variables). The deployer looks for each value first in a logging-deployer ConfigMap, then a logging-deployer secret, then.

What is the ELK Stack ?

“ELK” is the arconym for three open source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Logstash is a server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, tranforms it, and then sends it to a “stash” like Elasticsearch. Kibana lets users visualize data with charts and graphs in Elasticsearch.

What is the EFK Stack ?

“EFK” is the arconym for Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana.

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Fluentd vs. LogStash: A Feature Comparison, https://www.loomsystems.com/blog/single-post/2017/01/30/a-comparison-of-fluentd-vs-logstash-log-collector

Fluentd vs. Logstash: A Comparison of Log Collectors, https://logz.io/blog/fluentd-logstash/

What is the Fluentd?

  • Before Fluentd

  • After Fluentd

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Collect Docker logs to EFK Stack with Docker Compose.

Talk is cheap, show me the code @ https://github.com/qqbuby/efk-docker.

  • docker-compose.yml

  • .env

  • fluentd/etc/fluent.conf

    For more information about fluent.conf file, see https://docs.fluentd.org/v0.12/articles/config-file.

  • nginx/nginx.conf

  • nginx/conf.d/default.conf

  • nginx/conf.d/gzip.mime.types

  • nginx/conf.d/server.d/kibana.conf

The fluentd image qqbuby/fluentd:v1.2-es contains two fluentd plugins, fluent-plugin-elasticsearch and fluent-plugin-rewrite-tag-filter.

By default, Elasticsearch runs inside the container as user elasticsearch using uid:gid 1000:1000.

If you are bind-mouting a local directory or file, ensure it is readable by this user, while the data and log dirs additionally require write access. A good strategy is to grant group access to gid 1000 or 0 for the local directory. As an example, to prepare a local directory for storing data through a bind-mout:

For more information, see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/docker.html

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Now let’s create ES data directory and start our EFK services.

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  1. Create ES data directory.

  2. Use docker-compose to start services

  3. Please go to http://localhost with your browser and follow the Kibana documentation to define your index pattern with fluentd-*,

  4. Fllow the Kibana documentation to explore your logging data for the Discover page.

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Resources

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  1. ELK Stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, https://www.elastic.co/elk-stack
  2. Elasticsearch (Store, Search, and Analyze) Reference [6.3], https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/index.html
  3. Logstash (Collect, Enrich, and Transport) Reference [6.3], https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.3/index.html
  4. Kibana (Explore, Visualize, and Share) Reference [6.3], https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.3/index.html
  5. Fluentd vs. LogStash: A Feature Comparison, https://www.loomsystems.com/blog/single-post/2017/01/30/a-comparison-of-fluentd-vs-logstash-log-collector
  6. Fluentd vs. Logstash: A Comparison of Log Collectors, https://logz.io/blog/fluentd-logstash/
  7. Fluentd | Open Source Data Collector | Unified Logging Layer, https://www.fluentd.org/
  8. View logs for a container or service | Docker Documentation, https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/
  9. Configure logging drivers | Docker Documentation, https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/configure/
  10. JSON File logging driver | Docker Documentation, https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/json-file/
  11. Fluentd logging driver | Docker Documentation, https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/fluentd/
  12. Configuration File Syntax | Fluentd, https://docs.fluentd.org/v0.12/articles/config-file
  13. Format section configurations | Fluentd, https://docs.fluentd.org/v1.0/articles/format-section
  14. regexp Parser Plugin | Fluentd, https://docs.fluentd.org/v1.0/articles/parser_regexp