newrelic/newrelic-fluentd-docker repository overview

⁠Fluentd Docker Image for New Relic Logs

newrelic-fluentd-docker is a custom Docker image that runs Fluentd⁠, listens for log events from containers running the Fluentd logging driver⁠, and forwards them to New Relic. The image can be customized to support additional use cases (e.g. tailing files on a container host, receiving and forwarding syslog input).

⁠Usage

⁠Default Fluentd Configuration

The command below configures the container to receive and forward log events from other Docker containers running the Fluentd logging driver:

docker run --name="newrelic-fluentd-docker" --restart=always -d -p 24224:24224 \
-e "API_KEY=<YOUR API INSERT KEY>" -e "BASE_URI=<YOUR HTTP ENDPOINT>" \ 
-e "LOG_LEVEL=<YOUR DEFAULT LOG LEVEL>" newrelic/newrelic-fluentd-docker:latest

⁠Custom Fluentd Configuration

1. Clone this repository:

  $ git clone https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-fluentd-docker

1. Replace the default fluent.conf with your custom Fluentd configuration.
2. Build your custom Fluentd image:

docker build . -t newrelic-fluentd-docker

⁠Configuration

⁠Environment Variables

⁠Getting Your Keys

• You can retrieve your New Relic Insights insert key⁠ from the following location: https://insights.newrelic.com/accounts/<YOUR ACCOUNT ID>/manage/api_keys