Log Forwarding is Now Available for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS)

Posted: October 29, 2024•3 min read

We’re excited to share that log forwarding, a powerful functionality that is already available for Managed Databases and App Platform, is now available for DigitalOcean Kubernetes. Log forwarding allows you to transmit log data from various databases and applications to the log management provider of your choice, including OpenSearch.

Benefits of log forwarding in DOKS

With log forwarding now available for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS), customers will experience several benefits:

Centralized log management: Log forwarding allows customers to aggregate events across Kubernetes data plane into a centralized system. This makes it easier to manage and access cluster event logs across a distributed Kubernetes environment, rather than searching through individual nodes or containers for log data.
Improved monitoring and simplified troubleshooting: With a centralized log management system, this feature allows you to consolidate logs from multiple sources, including DOKS, making it easier to monitor application performance and troubleshoot issues. Logs are crucial for identifying issues in Kubernetes clusters, and a centralized service helps users to pinpoint and resolve errors, performance bottlenecks, or configuration issues by providing a unified view of system activity.
Improved altering: By forwarding logs to a log management provider, customers can set up alerts for specific log patterns or errors. This allows them to proactively respond to potential problems or threats before they impact production environments, helping to ensure better reliability.
Optimized resource usage: Combining Managed OpenSearch with DOKS helps to ensure that logs are processed, stored, and queries efficiently within a managed system optimized for performance. Both the combination and compatibility alone between DOKS and OpenSearch allows users to offload resource-intensive log aggregation and analysis to a specialized service (OpenSearch), which frees up Kubernetes resources for application workloads.

Benefits for all: no matter the application you’re building with DOKS, log forwarding can help

DOKS customers build a wide range of applications, varying from IoT, analytics, gaming, and e-learning. No matter the type of application you are building with DOKS, log forwarding offers valuable benefits to improve development and operational productivity. From small-scale microservices to AI-powered applications, centralized log management helps by automatically capturing logs from all parts of your Kubernetes environment. Whether it’s your database, backend services, or front-end components, log forwarding gives you real-time insights, allowing you to realize the benefits outlined above: quickly detect issues, optimize performance, and make data-driven decisions, all while ensuring your system remains resilient and secure. For more DOKS customer testimonials on the different types of applications built, visit our customer testimonials page.

Get started with DigitalOcean’s Kubernetes and Managed OpenSearch today!

Log forwarding for DOKS enhances the product integration experience at DigitalOcean, providing customers with an even more efficient workflow. The powerful combination of log forwarding, Kubernetes compute, and OpenSearch log analysis will ultimately empower customers to build stronger, more efficient applications.

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