Hi, I have a docker setup with filebeat and other containers producing logs that are fetched by the filebeat container. That works well so far, everything gets imported to elasticsearch indices and I can discover them in Kibana. Now I want to filter all logs by docker.container.name but this field …

Docker.container.name is always empty

tonyskulk (Tony Skulk) March 27, 2019, 3:09am 5

Still not able to get it running. Need help

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Docker.container.name is always empty

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