Collect Docker events

Limits

• Logtail that runs on containers or hosts must be authorized to access the /var/run/docker.sock file.

  For information about how to use Logtail to collect Kubernetes logs, see Collect Kubernetes logs. For information about how to collect standard container logs, see Collect logs from standard Docker containers.

• When Logtail is restarted or stopped, container events are not collected.

Scenarios

• Monitor the start and stop events of all containers, and trigger alerts when core containers stop running.
• Collect all container events for auditing, security analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Monitor all image pulling events, and trigger an alert if an image is pulled from an invalid path.

Procedure

1. Log on to the Log Service console.
2. In the Import Data section, select Custom Data Plug-in.
3. Select a destination project and Logstore, and then click Next.
   You can also click Create Now to create a project and a Logstore.
4. In the Create Machine Group step, create a machine group.
   • If a machine group is available, click Using Existing Machine Groups.
   • If no machine groups are available, perform the following steps to create a machine group. In this example, ECS instances are used.
     1. Install Logtail on ECS instances. For more information, see Install Logtail on ECS instances.

        If Logtail is installed on the ECS instances, click Complete Installation.

        Note If you want to collect logs from self-managed clusters or servers of third-party cloud service providers, you must install Logtail on these servers. For more information, see Install Logtail in Linux.
     2. After you install Logtail, click Complete Installation.
     3. On the page that appears, set related parameters for the machine group. For more information, see Create an IP address-based machine group or Create a custom ID-based machine group.
5. Select and move the destination machine group from Source Server Groups to Applied Server Groups, and then click Next.
   Notice If you want to apply a machine group immediately after it is created, the heartbeat status of the machine group may be FAIL. This is because the machine group has not been connected to Log Service. In this case, you can click Automatic Retry. If the problem persists, see What can I do if the Logtail client has no heartbeat?
6. In the Specify Data Source step, set the Config Name and Plug-in Config parameters.
   • inputs: Required. The Logtail configurations for log collection.
     Note You can configure only one type of data source in the inputs field.
   • processors: Optional. The Logtail configurations for data processing. You can configure one or more processing methods in the processors field. For more information, see Overview.

   {
     "inputs": [
       {
         "detail": {},
         "type": "service_docker_event"
       }
     ]
   }

   Parameter	Type	Required	Description
   type	string	Yes	The type of the data source. Set the value to service_docker_event.
   EventQueueSize	int	No	The maximum number of events in the event queue. Default value: 10.

7. Preview the data and click Next.
   By default, Log Service enables the Full Text Index to query and analyze logs. For more information, see Enable and configure the indexing feature for a Logstore.

   Note

   • The index is applicable only to the log data that is newly written.
   • To query and analyze logs, you must enable the Full Text Index or Field Search. If you enable both of them, the settings of Field Search prevail.