Advanced logging on Kubernetes

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Sandor Guba article diving into Kubernetes logging. The article covers some advanced techniques and visualizations of the collected logs. It is part of the series of articles on Kubernetes topic. Banzai Cloud puts huge efforts to monitor large and federated clusters and they push large amounts of logs of the distributed applications to Kubernetes.

The author’s focus is on Kubernetes and Fluentd; an open source data collector, which lets you unify the data collection and consumption for a better use and understanding of data.

Article deals with:

  • Logs parsing
  • Filtering messages based on app label
  • Logs storage
  • Kibana
  • Legacy applications monitoring

There is plenty of code examples and charts helping you to understand logging architecture they use. The charts and configurations available in their helm chart repository. Great read!

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