category: Logging

This post will illustrate how to use the new syslog logging driver for Docker, along with some notes on using docker-machine. The first thing to be clear on is the syslog logging driver enables you to relay the log messages written to stdout/stderr within a container, to syslog service on the host machine. For this example I am going to do this for an agent of the buildkite continuous integration (CI) service running inside a Docker container....

Configuring logging in Apache CXF can be confusing at first, in my view this is further compounded by Apache Tomcat’s logging architecture. In my cxf based projects the first step is to use the logging configuration available in 2.2.8 or later. This enables you to configure your logger of choice for the entire CXF stack. Needless to say I really like this feature as I am not a big fan of java....