docker-elasticsearch-fluentd-nginx/

[utterances-bot]

Ingest NGINX container access logs to ElasticSearch using Fluentd and Docker

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http://localhost:2368/docker-elasticsearch-fluentd-nginx/

[hassanfarid]

Thanks Melvin. This is helpful, and source code as well.

I have following question,

• What happens if fluentd is goes down or have to restart?
  • The nginx access logs will be lost during this time period?
  • Nginx will be able to restart? If fluentd is down for longer duration?

The question is related to dependency of nginx on fluentd presence, and nginx will fail and throw exception.

[donvito]

Hi, when fluentd is down, logs will not be sent to ElasticSearch. The nginx access logs will just be inside the nginx container as files or if you mount it in a docker volume then the log files will be persistent.

This configuration below is optional so feel free to remove it. I just used it when doing the example to make sure nginx starts when fluentd is already up.

depends_on:

• "fluentd"

[hassanfarid]

Hey- I don't think nginx will be able to start because of docker-driver binding with fluentd.