Adventures in GELF

1 · Jérôme Petazzoni · Jan. 20, 2017, midnight
If you are running apps in containers and are using Docker’s GELF logging driver (or are considering using it), the following musings might be relevant to your interests. Some context When you run applications in containers, the easiest logging method is to write on standard output. You can’t get simpler than that: just echo, print, write (or the equivalent in your programming language!) and the container engine will capture your application’s output. Other approaches are still possible, of cour...