Access to logs

Knowing the application behaviour is a crucial thing in the development process - allowing developers to investigate what happened in the app by accessing the logs. With logs, the developer or operator can properly optimize and debug the test and production environments. Our Cloud offers two possible ways to display logs.

Access via API

Another way to access logs is through our API. To get logs for the specific pod you should call /instance/<instance_name>-<region>-<provider>-storefrontcloud-io/pod/<pod_name>/log API endpoint. Continue to API reference for more information.

Usage

Call the API pods endpoint to get a current list of pods in your instance:

$ curl -H "X-User-Id: $VSFC_USER_ID" \
-H "X-Api-Key: $VSFC_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-X GET https://farmer.storefrontcloud.io/instance/<instance_name>-<region>-<provider>-storefrontcloud-io/pod

Choose one of the pods and perform another request:

$ curl -H "X-User-Id: $VSFC_USER_ID" \
-H "X-Api-Key: $VSFC_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-X GET https://farmer.storefrontcloud.io/instance/<instance_name>-<region>-<provider>-storefrontcloud-io/pod/<pod_name>/log

Sending logs to an external logging system

Our Cloud is based on Kubernetes and because of that our platform is highly customizable. One of the most powerful Kubernetes feature is the ability to add sidecar containers with the logging agent. We use Fluentd - it is an unified logging layer.

Currently we support integrations with the following solutions:

• Loki
• Azure Log Analytics
• Datadog
• New Relic

Using Fluentd Plugins we can integrate our Cloud with almost all popular external log aggregation platforms.

If you need to integrate with another external logging platform, please contact our support.