Unifying Log Aggregation in a Containerized World

As containers become more popular, our industry is changing. Although this change can feel radical to some, when thought about correctly, we gain a lot of benefits such as developers having more freedom to use the right tool for the job and Sys Admins gaining more control and stability over the infrastructure. Tools like Kubernetes, Swarm and Elastic Container Service make it easier for engineers to ship code and maintain the infrastructure it lives on. The control plane is moving a layer higher than the cloud providers and this allows us to standardize tools such as monitoring, alerting and logging.

In this talk, Brad Whitfield from Capital One will focus on what is arguably the most important thing for anyone on-call, maintaining applications or debugging code - an application's logs. Leveraging Docker and an orchestration solution, teams can aggregate logs for all of their applications and funnel them into a unified platform of choice. We will go over several strategies that teams can use to simplify log aggregation that meets the scale and business needs beyond volumes and logging drivers can provide.