Using Graylog to log from Nginx in a Docker container.

Julian Brown julian at jlbprof.com
Sun Jan 23 15:59:02 UTC 2022


OK, thank you

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 9:47 AM Sergey A. Osokin <osa at freebsd.org.ru> wrote:

> Hi Julian,
>
> hope you're doing well.
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 03:22:40PM -0600, Julian Brown wrote:
> > Currently I run Nginx as a reverse proxy in a Docker container.
> >
> > FROM nginx
> >
> > ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
> >
> > ... Details hidden ...
> >
> > EXPOSE 80
> > EXPOSE 443
> >
> > CMD nginx -g 'daemon off;'
> >
> > We are wanting to use Graylog, and have it for our other containers.  So
> I
> > want to now use it for Nginx.  Graylog is like Syslog.
> >
> > I went to follow this guide:
> >
> > https://github.com/ronlut/graylog-content-pack-nginx-docker
> >
> > It recommends we symbolically link the logs to stdout/stderr (which is
> > already part of the docker container) and it then uses this language (see
> > the bottom of the the README.md at github):
> >
> > Run
> >
> > Now, when your logs are collected by docker from stdout & stderr, you can
> > run your docker using this command:
> >
> > docker run --log-driver=gelf --log-opt
> > gelf-address=udp://<GraylogIP>:12401 <ImageName> <Command>
> >
> > for example:
> >
> > docker run --log-driver=gelf --log-opt
> > gelf-address=udp://<GraylogIP>:12401 busybox echo Hello Graylog
> >
> > <https://github.com/ronlut/graylog-content-pack-nginx-docker#screenshots
> >Has
> > anyone had any experience with this? Or understand this last set of
> steps?
>
> Since it's not related to nginx indirect, I'd recommend to raise a
> question or an issue for the project on GH, i.e.
>
> https://github.com/ronlut/graylog-content-pack-nginx-docker/issues/new/choose
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Sergey A. Osokin
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