Victoria Logs is a scalable logging solution designed to be fast and highly efficient. It provides users and organizations with better observability of their systems and helpsthem identify issues as well as debug, understand and analyze product behaviour.
Single server setup, using Docker Compose
The setup to runs Victoria Logs on Docker Compose is very easy. One port, one data volume and all the configuration is done through command line parameters. For this simple example, only one parameter: the storage data path.
services:
vic-logs:
image: docker.io/victoriametrics/victoria-logs:v1.52.0
ports:
- "9428:9428"
- "5514:5514"
- "5514:5514/udp"
volumes:
- "/srv/victoria:/victoria"
command:
- "-storageDataPath=/victoria/data/logs"
- "-syslog.listenAddr.tcp=:5514"
- "-syslog.listenAddr.udp=:5514"
Adding syslog listener is easy as adding some ports and command line options
services:
vic-logs:
image: docker.io/victoriametrics/victoria-logs:v1.52.0
ports:
- "9428:9428"
volumes:
- "/srv/victoria:/victoria"
command:
- "-storageDataPath=/victoria/data/logs"
Configuring clients
From Systemd Journald
You can send directly the Systemd Journald logs to Victoria Logs using the systemd-journal-upload service.
In /etc/systemd/journal-upload.conf :
[Upload]
URL=http://192.168.1.100:9428/insert/journald
The enable the service
$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journal-upload.service
On NixOS, enable the service and add the upload URL in the configuration:
services.journald.upload = {
enable = true;
settings = {
Upload = {
URL = "http://192.168.1.100:9428/insert/journald";
};
};
};
From Docker daemon
The Docker daemon can be configured to ship it logs to syslog server. See docs.docker.com/engine/logging/configure
{
"log-driver": "syslog",
"log-opts": {
"syslog-address": "udp://192.168.1.100:5514",
"syslog-format": "rfc5424",
"tag": "{{.Name}}"
}
}