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> Elastic is a really powerful system but I think there is growing sentiment that its overkill for container logs I don't know much about kubernetes, but Loki
by skrebbel 8y ago
> Elastic is a really powerful system but I think there is growing sentiment that its overkill for container logs
I don't know much about kubernetes, but Loki looks super interesting for our application logs too.
Could someone maybe ELI5 what the difference is between "container logs" and, well, any other kind of logs? Don't most dockerized application send their stdout to Docker, and aren't those, then, the container logs? What kind of logs _aren't_ "container logs" and therefore a better fit for ElasticSearch than Loki?
Thanks :-)
- gouthamve 8y agoI work with Tom on Loki. When we said we wanted to focus on Kubernetes, we meant we wanted to correlate metrics with logs and focusing on Kubernetes lets us do that well. Having said that, this will work for any logs as long as you can tag the logs meaningfully. We'll soon be releasing packages for all major distros and journald.