Collecting application logs
When you start managing the application, the log collection and analysis are two of the important routines to keep tracking the application's status.
However, there are some difficulties when the application is managed by Docker/Kubernetes; because the log files are inside the container, it is not easy to access them from outside the container. In addition, if the application has many pods by the replication controller, it will also be difficult to trace or identify in which pod the issue that has happened.
One way to overcome this difficulty is to prepare a centralized log collection platform that accumulates and preserves the application log. This recipe describes one of the popular log collection platforms ELK (
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