ELB does not appear to support UDP protocole

shazChaudhry / docker-elastic

Deploy Elastic stack in a Docker Swarm cluster. Ship application logs and metrics using beats & GELF plugin to Elasticsearch

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ELB does not appear to support UDP protocole #7

Closed shazChaudhry closed 7 years ago

shazChaudhry commented 7 years ago

The solution in this repository expect docker containers to send UDP messages to Logstash. However, it appears that UDP is not supported on AWS Elastic Load Balancer. Extremely annoying.....

Currently, I am using GELF log driver with docker services to send UDP messages to Logstash. Investigate what other log driver options are available

shazChaudhry commented 7 years ago

Have logged an issue with Docker: https://github.com/docker/for-aws/issues/107

shazChaudhry commented 7 years ago

Since AWS ELB does not support UDP protocole, one possible solution could be as follows:

Install Elastic Stack in its own VPC
Create a peering connection between Elastic Stack VPC and the VPC from where UDP messages are sent. Messages are sent to private IP addresses