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Docker Log Observability: Analyzing Container Logs in HashiCorp Nomad with Vector, Loki, and Grafana
job "vector" { datacenters = ["dc1"] # system job, runs on all nodes type = "system" group "vector" { count = 1 network { port "api" { to = 8686 } } ephemeral_disk { size = 500 sticky = true } task "vector" { driver = "docker" config { image = "timberio/vector:0.30.0-debian" ports = ["api"] volumes = ["/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"] } env { VECTOR_CONFIG = "local/vector.toml" VECTOR_REQUIRE_HEALTHY = "false" } resources { cpu = 100 # 100 MHz memory = 100 # 100MB } # template with Vector's configuration template { destination = "local/vector.toml" change_mode = "signal" change_signal = "SIGHUP" # overriding the delimiters to [[ ]] to avoid conflicts with Vector's native templating, which also uses {{ }} left_delimiter = "[[" right_delimiter = "]]" data=<
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- Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline
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Hacks to reduce cloud spend
we are doing something similar with OTEL but we are looking at using https://vector.dev/
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About reading logs
We don't pull logs, we forward logs to a centralized logging service.
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Self hosted log paraer
opensearch - amazon fork of Elasticsearch https://opensearch.org/docs/latestif you do this an have distributed log sources you'd use logstash for, bin off logstash and use vector (https://vector.dev/) its better out of the box for SaaS stuff.
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creating a centralize syslog server with elastic search
I have done something similar in the past: you can send the logs through a centralized syslog servers (I suggest syslog-ng) and from there ingest into ELK. For parsing I am advice to use something like Vector, is a lot more faster than logstash. When you have your logs ingested correctly, you can create your own dashboard in Kibana. If this fit your requirements, no need to install nginx (unless you want to use as reverse proxy for Kibana), php and mysql.
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Show HN: Homelab Monitoring Setup with Grafana
I think there's nothing currently that combines both logging and metrics into one easy package and visualizes it, but it's also something I would love to have.
Vector[1] would work as the agent, being able to collect both logs and metrics. But the issue would then be storing it. I'm assuming the Elastic Stack might now be able to do both, but it's just to heavy to deal with in a small setup.
A couple of months ago I took a brief look at that when setting up logging for my own homelab (https://pv.wtf/posts/logging-and-the-homelab). Mostly looking at the memory usage to fit it on my synology. Quickwit[2] and Log-Store[3] both come with built in web interfaces that reduce the need for grafana, but neither of them do metrics.
- [1] https://vector.dev
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Retaining Logs generated by service running in pod.
Log to stdout/stderr and collect your logs with a tool like vector (vector.dev) and send it to something like Grafana Loki.
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Lightweight logging on RPi?
I would recommend that you run vector as a systems service so you don't have to worry about managing it. Here is a basic config to do that - https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/blob/master/distribution/systemd/vector.service .
Fluentd
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Embracing Kubernetes: The Future of Containerized Applications
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Kubernetes Architecture
Currently, there is no cluster-wide logging. Fluentd can be used to have a unified logging layer for the cluster.
- Fluentd β open-source data collection and unified logging layer
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making job execution log searchable
Fluentd hasn't been touched for 8 years? Looking at the repo it looks like it's alive and well. https://github.com/fluent/fluentd
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Top 11 Splunk Alternatives that you may consider in 2023
Fluentd is an open-source log management and data collection tool. Just like Logstash, Fluentd uses a pipeline-based architecture. This allows it to collect data from various sources and network traffic and forward it to various destinations.
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7 Open-Source Log Management Tools that you may consider in 2023
Fluentd is a powerful log management tool that offers organizations the flexibility and scalability required to handle large volumes of log data from a variety of sources and transport it to various destinations. Utilizing a flexible and modular architecture, Fluentd allows users to easily add new input and output plugins to integrate with a wide range of systems and applications. It supports a wide range of data sources and destinations, including databases, message queues, and data stores.
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Substation: Data Pipeline and Transformation Toolkit Written in Go
Substation is an affordable alternative to products like Cribl (~10x cost savings) and is easier to manage than similar open-source projects such as Logstash and fluentd. It's been used in production by the security team at Brex for 2+ years and is ready for any scale, even beyond 100,000 events per second!
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Simple way to centralize my server logs?
There are probably too many to chose from. Logstash, Promtail, Vector, Filebeat, FluentD, Logagent and probably many more
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The Everything Guide to Data Collection in DevSecOps
To alleviate some of the pain, itβs a good idea to use industry standards and tooling like OpenTelemetry (https://opentelemetry.io). For data collection specific to logs, open-source tools like LogStash and Fluentd are also popular.
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Top 20 Observability Tools Every Startup Should Know About in 2022
Created and maintained by the creators of fluentd, fluentbit is a lightweight, fast, and scalable logging and metrics processor and forwarder. Built specifically for the cloud and containerized environments, it allows users to collect data from any source, enrich it with filters and forward it to the tool of their choice.
What are some alternatives?
graylog - Free and open log management
zipkin - Zipkin is a distributed tracing system
agent - Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.
Flume - Mirror of Apache Flume
syslog-ng - syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL & NoSQL.
Lograge - An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.
OpenSearch - π Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Semantic Logger - Semantic Logger is a feature rich logging framework, and replacement for existing Ruby & Rails loggers.
tracing - Application level tracing for Rust.
heka - DEPRECATED: Data collection and processing made easy.
qryn - qryn is a polyglot, high-performance observability framework for ClickHouse. Ingest, store and analyze logs, metrics and telemetry traces from any agent supporting Loki, Prometheus, OTLP, Tempo, Elastic, InfluxDB and many more formats and query transparently using Grafana or any other compatible client.
fluent-bit - Fast and Lightweight Logs and Metrics processor for Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows