Demystifying Log Collection in Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes

#kubernetes #monitoring #devops #nginx

🚢 My latest newsletter episode "Demystifying Log Collection in Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes"

Episode #36: A DevOps Engineer’s Guide to Aggregating Distributed Logs with Kubernetes and Elastic Tools.

🖥️ DevOps Engineer Perspective: Exploring log collection from a DevOps viewpoint, aggregating logs from distributed sources into a single log analysis tool, like Elasticsearch
🌐 Common challenges on Distributed Log Collection: log rotation, retry logic, in-memory buffers, async logging, and more.
🛠️ Kubernetes Logging Mechanisms: how Kubernetes gathers and makes container logs available to log collection agents.
🕸️ Nginx's logs in Kubernetes: how the modify Nginx container image to work in Kubernetes
🔧 Node logging agent architecture: offload log collection to an external agent
🪵Some common logging agents: Elastic agent, Elastic Beats, Otel collector

👉 Read the full article https://open.substack.com/pub/cloudnativeengineer/p/log-collection-in-kubernetes

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