Since we have had our first customers on our platform, observability has been an important topic for us. Containerized applications have many advantages, but the herd of microservices can also be overwhelming.
From the beginning, we have offered our customers the ability to view logs on any running container through our Console. Additionally, our customers have the option to send logs from their projects to a self-hosted ELK (or similar) for centralization.
We are all the more pleased to take over this work in the future: Planetary Quantum now offers fully automated and scalable logging based on Loki.
How Does It Work?#
As usual with Docker, you send the logs of your applications (containers) to stdout (or stderr). Via a Docker plugin for Loki, we aggregate the logs on your nodes and send them to our central Loki cluster.
To view logs, we offer a turnkey Grafana stack that you can deploy on your node. Then nothing stands in the way of infrastructure archaeology!
What Does It Cost?#
For customers of the Quantum platform, centralized logging is already included in the price. Logs are retained for up to 14 days in our GDPR-compliant infrastructure.