mongo-logger/README.md

Mongo logger

This is Mongo backed logging system that makes use of the fluentd driver found in Docker.

Running in production

To collect container logs on a Docker host populate .env with MONGO_URI and deploy docker-compose.yml on all Docker hosts.

In Docker host adjust /etc/docker/daemon.json

{
  "log-driver": "fluentd",
  "log-opts": {
    "fluentd-address": "127.0.0.1:24224",
    "fluentd-sub-second-precision": true
  }
}

Proceed to reload Docker daemon.

Enable syslog forwarding:

echo '*.* @127.0.0.1:5140' | tee /etc/rsyslog.d/fwd.conf
systemctl restart rsyslog

Dumping logs

To dump logs on console:

pip3 install motor termcolor
source .env
export MONGO_URI
python3 tailer.py

Why not Loki?

Loki is ridiculously complex to set up for HA setup.

Why not Fluentd?

After spending great deal of time working around bugs and design flaws in Fluentd we gave up. For reasoning see here