Hi,
I’m looking for the appropriate way to monitor applicative logs produced nginx, tomcat, springboot embedded in docker with filebeat and ELK.
In the container strategy, a container should be use for only one purpose
- one nginx per container
- one tomcat per container
meaning we can’t have an additional filebeat within a nginx or tomcat container.
Over what I have read over Internet, we could have the following setup:
- a volume dedicated for storing logs
- a nginx container which mount the dedicated logs volume
- a tomcat / springboot container which mount the dedicated logs volume
- a filebeat container also mounting the dedicated logs volume
This works fine but when it comes to scale out nginx and springboot container, it is a little bit more complex for me
Which pattern should I use to push my logs using filebeat to logstash if I have the following configuration:
- several nginx containers in load balancing with the same configuration (logs configuration is the same: same path)
- several springboot rest api containers behing nginx containers with the same configuration (logs configuration is the same:same path)
Should I create one volume by set of nginx + springboot rest api and add a filebeat container ?
Should I create a global log volume shared by all my containers and have a different log filename by container
(having the name of the container in the filename of the logs?) and having only one filebeat container ?
In the second proposal, how to scale filebeat ?
Is there another way to do that ?
Many thanks for your help.