Tools and Log Management with Logmet

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| UCD: IBM UrbanCode Deploy is a tool for automating application deployments through your environments. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service: Kubernetes implementation of IBM. WH Docker Registry: Docker Private image registry. Common agent containers: We expect to configure our services to use the WHC mandatory agents. We deployed all ion containers. |



Reading and displaying logs using logmet container:



Logmet is a cloud logging service that helps to collect, store, and analyze an application’s log data. It also aggregates application and environment logs for consolidated application or environment insights and forwards them. Metrics are transmitted with collectd. We chose a model that runs a logmet agent process inside the container. The agent takes care of forwarding the logs to the cloud logging service configured in containers.



The application pod mounts the application logging directory to the storage space, which is created by persistent volume claim, and stores the logs, which are not lost even when the pod dies. Kibana is an open source data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch. It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster.

Title: Tools and Log Management with Logmet

Summary

This section defines the tools used, including IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) for automating deployments, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, and Docker Registry. It also explains how Logmet, a cloud logging service, is used to collect, store, and analyze application log data by running a logmet agent inside the container. The application pod mounts the logging directory to storage created by a persistent volume claim, ensuring logs are preserved. Kibana is used for data visualization.