Centralized Logging for Microservices

[NilsG-S]

Possibilities:

• ELK stack: https://www.elastic.co/elk-stack
  • This seems pretty heavyweight

Resources:

• https://www.loggly.com/blog/tools-and-techniques-for-logging-microservices/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/microservices/logging-monitoring#example-logging-with-correlation-ids
• http://opentracing.io/documentation/
• http://callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik/2017/09/13/building-microservices-part-8-logging-with-ELK/

[ynigoreyes]

Doesn't stack driver do this? or that a K8s thing?

[NilsG-S]

It does look like Google Stackdriver has a free-tier that would work for us.

https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing_v2

[ynigoreyes]

https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/setup/nodejs quick start using Bunyan