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loki.source.docker
loki.source.docker
reads log entries from Docker containers and forwards them
to other loki.*
components. Each component can read from a single Docker
daemon.
Multiple loki.source.docker
components can be specified by giving them
different labels.
Usage
loki.source.docker "LABEL" {
host = HOST
targets = TARGET_LIST
forward_to = RECEIVER_LIST
}
Arguments
The component starts a new reader for each of the given targets
and fans out
log entries to the list of receivers passed in forward_to
.
loki.source.docker
supports the following arguments:
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
host | string | Address of the Docker daemon. | yes | |
targets | list(map(string)) | List of containers to read logs from. | yes | |
forward_to | list(LogsReceiver) | List of receivers to send log entries to. | yes | |
labels | map(string) | The default set of labels to apply on entries. | "{}" | no |
relabel_rules | RelabelRules | Relabeling rules to apply on log entries. | "{}" | no |
refresh_interval | duration | The refresh interval to use when connecting to the Docker daemon over HTTP(S). | "60s" | no |
Blocks
The following blocks are supported inside the definition of loki.source.docker
:
Hierarchy | Block | Description | Required |
---|---|---|---|
client | client | HTTP client settings when connecting to the endpoint. | no |
client > basic_auth | basic_auth | Configure basic_auth for authenticating to the endpoint. | no |
client > authorization | authorization | Configure generic authorization to the endpoint. | no |
client > oauth2 | oauth2 | Configure OAuth2 for authenticating to the endpoint. | no |
client > oauth2 > tls_config | tls_config | Configure TLS settings for connecting to the endpoint. | no |
client > tls_config | tls_config | Configure TLS settings for connecting to the endpoint. | no |
The >
symbol indicates deeper levels of nesting. For example, client > basic_auth
refers to an basic_auth
block defined inside a client
block.
These blocks are only applicable when connecting to a Docker daemon over HTTP
or HTTPS and has no effect when connecting via a unix:///
socket
client block
The client
block configures settings used to connect to HTTP(S) Docker
daemons.
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
bearer_token_file | string | File containing a bearer token to authenticate with. | no | |
bearer_token | secret | Bearer token to authenticate with. | no | |
enable_http2 | bool | Whether HTTP2 is supported for requests. | true | no |
follow_redirects | bool | Whether redirects returned by the server should be followed. | true | no |
proxy_url | string | HTTP proxy to send requests through. | no |
bearer_token
, bearer_token_file
, basic_auth
, authorization
, and oauth2
are mutually exclusive, and only one can be provided inside of a http_client_config
block.
basic_auth block
The basic_auth
block configures basic authentication for HTTP(S) Docker
daemons.
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
password_file | string | File containing the basic auth password. | no | |
password | secret | Basic auth password. | no | |
username | string | Basic auth username. | no |
password
and password_file
are mutually exclusive, and only one can be provided inside a basic_auth
block.
authorization block
The authorization
block configures custom authorization to use for the Docker
daemon.
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
credentials_file | string | File containing the secret value. | no | |
credentials | secret | Secret value. | no | |
type | string | Authorization type, for example, “Bearer”. | no |
credential
and credentials_file
are mutually exclusive, and only one can be provided inside an authorization
block.
oauth2 block
The oauth2
block configures OAuth2 authorization to use for the Docker
daemon.
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
client_id | string | OAuth2 client ID. | no | |
client_secret_file | string | File containing the OAuth2 client secret. | no | |
client_secret | secret | OAuth2 client secret. | no | |
endpoint_params | map(string) | Optional parameters to append to the token URL. | no | |
proxy_url | string | Optional proxy URL for OAuth2 requests. | no | |
scopes | list(string) | List of scopes to authenticate with. | no | |
token_url | string | URL to fetch the token from. | no |
client_secret
and client_secret_file
are mutually exclusive, and only one can be provided inside an oauth2
block.
The oauth2
block may also contain a separate tls_config
sub-block.
tls_config block
The tls_config
block configures TLS settings for connecting to HTTPS Docker
daemons.
Name | Type | Description | Default | Required |
---|---|---|---|---|
ca_pem | string | CA PEM-encoded text to validate the server with. | no | |
ca_file | string | CA certificate to validate the server with. | no | |
cert_pem | string | Certificate PEM-encoded text for client authentication. | no | |
cert_file | string | Certificate file for client authentication. | no | |
insecure_skip_verify | bool | Disables validation of the server certificate. | no | |
key_file | string | Key file for client authentication. | no | |
key_pem | secret | Key PEM-encoded text for client authentication. | no | |
min_version | string | Minimum acceptable TLS version. | no | |
server_name | string | ServerName extension to indicate the name of the server. | no |
The following pairs of arguments are mutually exclusive and can’t both be set simultaneously:
ca_pem
andca_file
cert_pem
andcert_file
key_pem
andkey_file
When configuring client authentication, both the client certificate (using
cert_pem
or cert_file
) and the client key (using key_pem
or key_file
)
must be provided.
When min_version
is not provided, the minimum acceptable TLS version is
inherited from Go’s default minimum version, TLS 1.2. If min_version
is
provided, it must be set to one of the following strings:
"TLS10"
(TLS 1.0)"TLS11"
(TLS 1.1)"TLS12"
(TLS 1.2)"TLS13"
(TLS 1.3)
Exported fields
loki.source.docker
does not export any fields.
Component health
loki.source.docker
is only reported as unhealthy if given an invalid
configuration.
Debug information
loki.source.docker
exposes some debug information per target:
- Whether the target is ready to tail entries.
- The labels associated with the target.
- The most recent time a log line was read.
Debug metrics
loki_source_docker_target_entries_total
(gauge): Total number of successful entries sent to the Docker target.loki_source_docker_target_parsing_errors_total
(gauge): Total number of parsing errors while receiving Docker messages.
Component behavior
The component uses its data path (a directory named after the domain’s
fully qualified name) to store its positions file. The positions file
stores the read offsets so that if there is a component or Agent restart,
loki.source.docker
can pick up tailing from the same spot.
Example
This example collects log entries from the files specified in the targets
argument and forwards them to a loki.write
component to be written to Loki.
discovery.docker "linux" {
host = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
}
loki.source.docker "default" {
host = "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
targets = discovery.docker.linux.targets
forward_to = [loki.write.local.receiver]
}
loki.write "local" {
endpoint {
url = "loki:3100/api/v1/push"
}
}