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Send fluent bit collected logs to Seq
Here I will setup fluent-bit and seq both with docker and push logs through fluent bit to to seq.
I will also show how to setup fluent bit and seq with docker.
Setup a docker network for the containers
docker network create fluent-bit_seq
Setting up Seq
At first setup a hashed password to be used
PH=$(echo 'seqPass%%' | docker run --rm -i datalust/seq config hash)
Make sure that the password variable is ok
echo $PH
Run the container
docker run --name seq -d --network fluent-bit_seq \ -p8080:80 --restart unless-stopped \ -e ACCEPT_EULA=Y -e SEQ_FIRSTRUN_ADMINPASSWORDHASH="$PH" \ datalust/seq
Now browse tolocalhost:8080
and login into Seq using username=admin password=seqPass%%
Setting up Fluent Bit
Designate a folder where you'll store the fluent bit configs. In my case the directory isD:/fluent-bit
Set the directory where fluent bit's config will come from
export sharedFolder=/var/fluent-bit_seq
Start a temporary container to copy default configs from
docker run -d --rm --name temp cr.fluentbit.io/fluent/fluent-bit
Copy the configs to your designated folder
docker cp temp:/fluent-bit/etc/ $sharedFolder
Stop the temporary container
docker stop temp
Now start fluent bit with the config folder mounted as a volume
docker run -dti --name fluent-bit --network fluent-bit_seq \ -v $sharedFolder:/fluent-bit/etc \ cr.fluentbit.io/fluent/fluent-bit
By default fluent bit is configured to output to std out. So see docker log to see what fluent bit is logging.
docker logs fluent-bit
Configuring Fluent Bit to send logs to Seq
Go to the fluent bit configuration directory and search for this section
# fluent-bit.conf[OUTPUT] name stdout match *
Replace this section with this and save
# fluent-bit.conf[OUTPUT] Name http Match * Host seq Port 5341 URI /api/events/raw?clef Format json_lines Json_date_key @t Json_date_format iso8601 Log_response_payload False
Now restart the fluent bit container for the changes to take effect.
docker restart fluent-bit
Now browse tolocalhost:8080
and login into Seq using username=admin password=seqPass%% and see that the logs are being written into Seq
Thanks for reading, Happy Tinkering :)
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