Enable ECS logging

Enable ECS Elasticsearch logging for containers at the Tenant level

To generate logs for AWS ECS clusters, you must first create an Elasticsearch logging container. Once auditing is enabled, your container logging data can be captured for analysis.

Prerequisites

• Create a Task Definition

• Define at least one Service and container.

• Enable the Audit feature.

Enabling ECS ElasticSearch logging

1. In the DuploCloud Portal, navigate to Administrator -> Tenant. The Tenant page displays.

2. From the Name column, select the Tenant that is running the container for which you want to enable logging.

3. Click the Settings tab.

4. Click Add. The Add Tenant Feature pane displays.

5. From the Select Feature list box, select Other. The Configuration field displays.

6. In the Configuration field, enter Enable ECS ElasticSearch Logging.

7. In the field below the Configuration field, enter True.

8. Click Add. In the Settings tab, Enable ECS ElasticSearch Logging displays a Value of True.

Verifying ECS logging is enabled

You can verify that ECS logging is enabled for a specific container.

1. In the DuploCloud Portal, navigate to Cloud Services -> ECS.

2. In the Task Definitions tab, select the Task Definition Family Name in which your container is defined.

   

   The Task Definition Family Name detail page with Task Definitions tab selected
3. Click the Task Definitions tab.

4. Menu icon ( ) in the row of the task definition and select Edit Task Definition. The Edit Task Definition page displays your defined Containers.

Task Definitions tab menu with Edit Task Definition highlighted

In the Container - 1 area, in the Container Other Config field, your LogConfiguration is displayed.

Container - 1 area of the Task Definition editor with highlighted Container Other Config field for container1

In the Container-2 area, another container is created by DuploCloud with the name log_router.

Container - 2 area of the Task Definition editor displaying configuration for log_router container, created by DuploCloud