Hi. I’m teaching myself Kubernetes and so far I was able to set up one and deploy a few small projects to it.
Before moving forward, I would like to collect and forward ALL logs to Google Cloud for safekeeping. I’m doing this since I will most likely destroy and recreate the clusters as I learn. (The logs will serve as my notes.)
So far, the solutions I’ve found are vendor-specific meaning GKE->Google Logs or AWS EKS->Cloudwatch. Or Elasticsearch-centric which is too advanced (and expensive) for me at this point.
Any advice or insight would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
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Hi there,
It’s fantastic that you’re diving into Kubernetes and exploring ways to collect and forward logs to Google Cloud for analysis and safekeeping. Since you’re looking for a solution that’s not vendor-specific and more accessible than setting up an Elasticsearch stack, you might want to consider using Fluentd, a popular open-source data collector for unified logging layers.
Fluentd can be easily deployed in your Kubernetes cluster and configured to send logs to Google Cloud’s logging services:
An alternative option is to use Robusta, here is a step-by-step guide on how to set it all up:
Best,
Bobby
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