OpenShift Cookbook

Viewing application logs

Logs are important data generated by your application that can help you understand user heuristics, monitor application performance, and debug problems. They are the first place you look when something goes wrong in your application. OpenShift uses a service called logshifter, which collects logs from all the different pieces of your application and makes them accessible at a single location. These logs can then be fed to your favorite log management solution, such as Splunk, to gain more useful insights. In this recipe, you will learn how easily you can view all the logs of your application using a single command. This recipe covers logging in a cartridge-agnostic manner. The language-specific aspects of logging will ...