I do use Kafka for centralize all the logging and messaging so was a no
brain choice for me.
Plus gives you durability in case you have problems with syslog/indexing
services.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 6:13 PM David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Luigi Tagliamonte via rsyslog wrote:
>
> > I personally think that the best way is to have the docker log kafka
> plugin
> > sending logs to Kafka and then fetch then with rsyslog Kafka in module.
>
> that's possbile, but it seems like a poor approach to need to install
> something
> as complex as kafka or fluent just to get logs to syslog.
>
> any idea how receptive the docker folks would be to a modification to the
> syslog
> log driver that output the needed data in json? It should be a trivial
> thing to
> combine the 'send to syslog' part of one log driver with the 'write data in
> json' of a second log driver, adding a little metadata may be a little more
> work, but it's wasted work if it can't go upstream.
>
> David Lang
>
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