Docker Logs Monitoring & Observability
Explore the nuances of Docker Logging, offering a comprehensive approach to efficiently troubleshoot Docker, trace issues, and optimize cluster performance.
Monitor Docker container logs across hosts and production environments
Collect Docker container logs
Capture logs written to stdout and stderr by Docker containers using the default logging drivers across running and stopped containers.
Support multiple logging drivers
Ingest logs produced via Docker logging drivers such as json-file, journald, and syslog without altering container images.
Track container lifecycle events
Analyze log output generated during container start, stop, restart, and failure events to troubleshoot runtime issues.
Monitor Docker daemon activity
Collect Docker daemon logs to investigate image pulls, container scheduling failures, and resource constraints on hosts.
Detect container crashes and exits
Identify abnormal container exits, crash loops, and application failures using runtime log patterns.
Enrich logs with container metadata
Attach container identifiers, image names, labels, and host information to each log entry for precise filtering and analysis.
Handle high-volume container output
Centralize Docker logs from high-throughput containers while maintaining performance during spikes and rolling restarts.
Support standalone and swarm setups
Aggregate Docker logs from standalone hosts and Docker Swarm clusters into a unified logging view.
Centralize Your Docker Container Logs for Real-Time Insight
Send logs from your Docker containers into Atatus so you can search, parse, and analyze events across all services without juggling local files or isolated streams.
Logs Scattered Across Containers
Docker logs generated by many containers are difficult to unify, and centralized ingestion brings them together to reveal patterns across your stack.
Raw Streams Are Hard to Analyze
Default stdout and stderr streams make trend analysis difficult, and structured parsing turns raw output into searchable fields.
High Volume Buries Useful Data
Continuous container output can drown important events, and search with filters helps narrow down to relevant log entries quickly.
Real-Time Issues Can Be Missed
Manually tailing logs across containers misses context, and live log ingestion allows you to view events as they happen.
Logs Do Not Stand Alone
Standalone log files lack performance context, and correlating Docker logs with traces and metrics shows how events impact latency and errors.
Why choose Atatus for Docker logs monitoring?
Production-grade visibility into Docker containers, daemon activity, and host-level events
Docker-native log ingestion
Designed to collect Docker container logs directly from the host without requiring changes to application containers.
Container and host context
Automatically enriches log data with container metadata, image details, and host identifiers for faster troubleshooting.
Daemon-level visibility
Captures Docker daemon logs to help diagnose container runtime failures and infrastructure issues.
Built for dynamic workloads
Handles frequent container restarts and short-lived workloads common in Docker-based production environments.
Scales with container density
Efficiently processes high log volumes generated by densely packed Docker hosts without performance impact.
Works across diverse deployments
Supports Docker running on virtual machines, bare-metal servers, and cloud infrastructure.
Unified Observability for Every Engineering Team
Atatus adapts to how engineering teams work across development, operations, and reliability.
Developers
Trace requests, debug errors, and identify performance issues at the code level with clear context.
DevOps
Track deployments, monitor infrastructure impact, and understand how releases affect application stability.
Release Engineer
Measure service health, latency, and error rates to maintain reliability and reduce production risk.
Unified Logs Monitoring & Observability Across Different Platforms
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