knservis/fluentd repository overview

⁠Docker fluentd

Docker image with:

• docker-gen⁠
• fluentd⁠
• fluent-plugin-cloudwatch-logs

which tails docker containers logs and sends them to cloudwatch logs.

Fluentd config is created using /app/config/fluentd.tmpl docker-gen template and could be easily overwritten in custom Dockerfile:

ADD my-custom-fluentd-template.tmpl /app/config/fluentd.tmpl

⁠Simple usage

docker run -d -v -e AWS_REGION='us-east-1' /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock -v /var/lib/docker:/var/lib/docker knservis/fluentd

Logs will be sent to a a group called docker-logs and the stream name will be the docker conatiner name.

⁠AWS Policy (log write only)

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:*"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:*:*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}