Other monitoring and logging solutions

There are several other solutions that we can use to monitor and log infrastructure in order to support our Docker-based application. Some of them already have built-in support for monitoring Docker containers. Others should be combined with other solutions, such as the ones we saw previously, because they only focus on a specific part of monitoring or logging.

With other solutions, we may have to use some workarounds; however, their benefits clearly outweigh the compromise we have to make. While the following list is not exhaustive, it shows a few of the stacks we can explore to create our logging and monitoring solutions:

• Graphite (http://graphiteapp.org/)
• InfluxDB (http://influxdb.com)
• Sensu (http://sensuapp.org)
• Fluentd (http://www.fluentd.org/)
• Graylog (http://www.graylog.org)
• Splunk (http://www.splunk.com)

Sometimes, the operations...