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Collect Docker (system) events with any log management stack
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Why?

Docker (system) events are only available through the Docker Engine API, e.g. with the Docker client docker events or docker system events commands. Sadly, few log forwarders have a facility to collect these events.

How?

Most log forwarders can natively collect containers' logs. Let's create a container that spits Docker events to stdout.

What?

docker run --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock docker events --format '{{json .}}'
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