github.com/rvaralda/deis@v1.4.1/docs/managing_deis/platform_logging.rst (about) 1 :title: Platform logging 2 :description: Configuring platform logging. 3 4 .. _platform_logging: 5 6 Platform logging 7 ================ 8 9 Logging for Deis components and deployed applications is handled by two components: 10 :ref:`logger` and :ref:`logspout`. 11 12 ``deis-logspout`` runs on all CoreOS hosts, collects logs from running containers 13 and sends their logs to ``/deis/logs/host`` and ``/deis/logs/port``. 14 15 ``deis-logger`` collects the logs sent by logspout and archives them for use by :ref:`Controller` 16 when a client runs ``deis logs``. This component publishes its host and port to ``/deis/logs/host`` 17 and ``/deis/logs/port``, and is typically the service which consumes logs from ``deis-logspout``. 18 19 Routing logs to a custom location 20 --------------------------------- 21 22 Logging to an external location can be achieved without modifying the log flow within Deis - 23 we can simply send the master journal on a CoreOS host using ``ncat``. For example, if I'm using the 24 `Papertrail`_ hosted log service, I can forward all logs on a host to Papertrail using the host 25 and port provided to me by Papertrail: 26 27 .. code-block:: console 28 29 $ journalctl -o short -f | ncat --ssl logs2.papertrailapp.com 23654 30 31 This is really only useful when shipped as a service that we don't have to run ourselves in 32 a shell. We can use a fleet service for this: 33 34 .. code-block:: console 35 36 [Unit] 37 Description=Log forwarder 38 39 [Service] 40 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "journalctl -o short -f | ncat --ssl logs2.papertrailapp.com 23654" 41 42 [Install] 43 WantedBy=multi-user.target 44 45 [X-Fleet] 46 Global=true 47 48 Save the file as ``log-forwarder.service``. Load and start the service with 49 ``fleetctl load log-forwarder.service && fleetctl start log-forwarder.service``. 50 51 Shortly thereafter, you should start to see logs from every host in your cluster appear in the 52 Papertrail dashboard. 53 54 .. _`logspout`: https://github.com/progrium/logspout 55 .. _`papertrail`: https://papertrailapp.com/