Kubernetes Helm nri-bundle logtype

#1

Hello!

I am using the nri-bundle Helm Chart in version 1.9.1 to ingest logs from containers on my Kubernetes cluster into New Relic One. Now I discovered New Relic’s log parsing (https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/logs/log-management/ui-data/logs-parsing-built-rules-custom-parsing) and would like to use that to parse the access and error logs of my Nginx containers. However, the documentation does not describe a method that seems to be usable for the New Relic Integration for Kubernetes. How can I specify the logtype for my containers, ideally distinguishing stdout and stderr?

Thank you in advance,
Dennis

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#2

@dschridde Been awhile since you posted this topic and unfortunately there hasn’t been a response from the community yet. I will raise this back up to our support team so that you can hopefully can get some help soon. Thanks for your continued patience!

Joi

#3

Hi @dschridde, apologies for the delay on this! I think if you follow the example here, you should be able to parse the access and error logs.

Let me know how that goes for you.

#4

Sadly that does not work, since my nginx runs as a container and not on a machine. It outputs logs to stdout and stderr and not into files.

The nri-bundle Helm chart (https://github.com/newrelic/helm-charts) captures the log messages via Kubernetes’ internal log files (cf. https://github.com/newrelic/helm-charts/blob/master/charts/newrelic-logging/k8s/README.md#configuration-notes) and there appears to be no documented way to specify the logtype for individual containers in this case.

I created https://github.com/newrelic/helm-charts/issues/251 as a feature request.

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#5

Thanks for the update @dschridde. I have submitted a feature request on my end for this as well and I’ve +1 this internally to try and get a bit of traction going. While there is no guarantee that this will be implemented, hopefully with will be on our future roadmap.