In an attempt to walk before running I thought I'd set up a filebeat instance as a syslog server and then use logger to send log messages to it. My Docker Compose configuration for setting up filebeat is filebeat: image: docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:6.3.1 stdin_open: true tty: true com…

[image] Magnus_Therning: protocol.tcp.host: "localhost:5000" The syslog input is being bound to the container's loopback interface. Just need to remove the host name: protocol.tcp.host: ":5000"

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Minimal filebeat config: syslog -> file

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