4 years ago

Category: Software, Kubernetes, Docker, automation

The microservice architectural style provides development teams with a more decentralized approach to building software, each service being isolated, built, deployed, and managed independently. Although microservices-management complexity is dwindling due to these breakthroughs, some challenges remain, like the smooth and easy monitoring of such infrastructures.

This article introduces Logspout and a new Slack adapter as a lightweight log-monitoring alternative for your Docker containers, which you can configure and deploy in a snap.

It acts as a nonintrusive agent on each of your Docker instances, collecting logs from each running daemon.

Logspout is modular and allows you to export logs in a variety of formats through adapters.