Cloud Foundry Day Europe 2024

Loggregator, the Cloud Foundry's Logging and Metrics Stack, enables different ways of collecting and sending logs and metrics to third party logs and metrics management solutions. In this talk, Jovan will summarize the possible ways of collecting logs and metrics from Cloud Foundry, give a detailed description of Syslog Drains, compare them with Firehose Nozzles and show why the Syslog Drains are the best and most reliable way to collect logs and metrics from Cloud Foundry. From the experience gathered at SAP with Syslog Drains, a few common problems were detected when using Syslog Drains. Jovan will go through the common problems when building CF apps and configuring and using Syslog Drains, will show how to troubleshoot and fix these problems, which tools can be used for that and how to monitor Syslog Drains. The application developers as well as the platform operators can see and hear how to leverage Syslog drains without disturbing the others on the platform and how to monitor that everything is working properly. Everything will be backed with many practical hands-on examples, so that this talk can be a guide for everyone working with or troubleshooting Syslog Drains.