Centralized Logging Patterns

A presentation at Jfokus in in Stockholm, Sweden by Philipp Krenn

Most organizations feel the need to centralize their logs — once you have more than a couple of systems, SSH and tail will not serve you well any more. This talk presents multiple approaches and patterns with their advantages and disadvantages:

  • Parse: Take the log files of your applications and extract the relevant pieces of information.
  • Send: Add a log appender to send out your events directly without persisting them to a log file.
  • Structure: Write your events in a structured file, which you can then centralize.
  • Containerize: Keep track of short lived containers and configure their logging correctly.
  • Orchestrate: Stay on top of your logs even when services are short lived and dynamically allocated on Kubernetes.

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