Explore Centralized Logging Through Papertrail
Explore how to implement centralized logging in Kubernetes using Papertrail. Learn to configure Fluentd for log forwarding, register for Papertrail's service, and query logs to troubleshoot cluster applications effectively.
Papertrail
The first centralized logging solution we’ll explore is Papertrail. We’ll use it as a representative of a logging-as-a-service solution that can save us from installing and, more importantly, maintaining a self-hosted alternative.
Papertrail features live trailing, filtering by timestamps, powerful search queries, pretty colors, and quite a few other things that might (or might not) be essential when skimming through logs produced inside our clusters.
Register at PaperTrail
The first thing we need to do is to register or, if this is not the first time you tried Papertrail, log in.
open "https://papertrailapp.com/"
Please follow the instructions to register, or log in if you already have a user in their system.
You will be glad to find out that Papertrail provides a free plan that allows storage of 50 MB of logs searchable for one day, as well as a full year of downloadable archives. That should be more than enough for running the examples we are about to explore. If you have a relatively small cluster, that should keep you going indefinitely. Their prices are reasonable, ...