newrelic-fluentd-docker is a custom Docker image that runs Fluentd, listens for log events from containers running the Fluentd logging driver, and forwards them to New Relic. The image can be customized to support additional use cases (e.g. tailing files on a container host, receiving and forwarding syslog input).

The command below configures the container to receive and forward log events from other Docker containers running the Fluentd logging driver:

docker run --name="newrelic-fluentd-docker" --restart=always -d -p 24224:24224 \
-e "API_KEY=<YOUR LICENSE KEY>" -e "BASE_URI=<YOUR HTTP ENDPOINT>" \ 
-e "LOG_LEVEL=<YOUR DEFAULT LOG LEVEL>" newrelic/newrelic-fluentd-docker:latest

1. Clone this repository:

  $ git clone https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-fluentd-docker

2. Replace the default fluent.conf with your custom Fluentd configuration.
3. Build your custom Fluentd image:

docker build . -t newrelic-fluentd-docker