Using Graylog to log from Nginx in a Docker container.

[Sergey A. Osokin]

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.

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Sergey A. Osokin