etherealjoy / docker-logging-plugin

Splunk logging plugin allows docker containers to send their logs directly to a Splunk Enterprise service, a Splunk Cloud deployment, or to a SplunkNova account.

Splunk Log-driver plugin for Docker

Splunk logging plugin allows docker containers to send their logs directly to a Splunk Enterprise service, a Splunk Cloud deployment, or to a SplunkNova account.

Getting Started

You need to install Docker Engine >= 1.12.

Additional information about Docker plugins can be found here.

Developing

For development, you can clone and run make

git clone [e-mail]:splunk/docker-logging-plugin.git
cd docker-logging-plugin
make

Installing

To install the plugin, you can run

docker plugin install splunk/docker-logging-driver:latest --alias splunk
docker plugin ls

This command will pull and enable the plugin

Using

The plugin uses the same parameters as the splunk logging driver.

Splunk Enterprise Example

$ docker run --log-driver=splunk \
             --log-opt splunk-url=https://your-splunkhost:8088 \
             --log-opt splunk-token=176FCEBF-4CF5-4EDF-91BC-703796522D20 \
             --log-opt splunk-capath=/path/to/cert/cacert.pem \
             --log-opt splunk-caname=SplunkServerDefaultCert \
             --log-opt tag="{{.Name}}/{{.FullID}}" \
             --log-opt labels=location \
             --log-opt env=TEST \
             --env "TEST=false" \
             --label location=west \
             -it ubuntu bash

SplunkNova Example

Once you make an account on www.splunknova.com, you can grab your API credentials and use them here.

$ docker run --log-driver=splunk \
             --log-opt splunk-url=https://api.splunknova.com:443 \
             --log-opt splunk-token=<YOUR BASE64 ENCODED API KEYS> \
             --log-opt splunk-url-path='/v1/events' \
             --log-opt tag="{{.Name}}/{{.FullID}}" \
             --log-opt splunk-format=nova \
             --log-opt splunk-verify-connection=false \
             --log-opt splunk-source='docker-logging' \
             -it ubuntu bash