I'm running Filebeat on several docker containers using this Dockerfile: https://github.com/primait/docker-filebeat/blob/master/1.2/Dockerfile When the container for some reason crashes or goes down I need to make sure that the processed logs up to that point are not reprocessed again, leading to …

Filebeat: Persist processed logs if docker container crashes

ruflin (ruflin) September 9, 2016, 6:15am 4

Alternatively instead of running filebeat in each container, you could run one container with filebeat and mount the docker logs volumes into the container for processing. Liek this filebeat keeps running if one of your containers stops.

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