Kubernetes plugin for log forwarding

New Relic offers an output plugin for Fluent Bitto easily forward your logs to New Relic Logs. This plugin is also provided in a standalone Docker image that can be installed in a Kubernetes cluster in the form of a DaemonSet. We refer to this as our Kubernetes plugin for log forwarding.

Forwarding your Kubernetes logs to New Relic will give you enhanced log management capabilities to collect, process, explore, query, and alert on your log data.

Enable Kubernetes for log management

To forward your Kubernetes logs to New Relic with our plugin:

1. Install the New Relic Kubernetes integration following the steps from this page. This integration includes the Kubernetes plugin for logs.
2. Optionally, you can further tune your installation in Step 3 from the guided install using the numerous configuration options available in the newrelic-logging repository. However, we recommend the standard setup, as it is valid for most users.
3. Generate some traffic and wait a few minutes, then check your account for data.

View log data

If everything is configured correctly and your data is being collected, you should see log data in both of these places:

• Our logs UI
• Our tools for running NRQL queries. For example, you can execute a query like this:

SELECT * FROM Log

If no data appears after you enable our log management capabilities, follow our standard log troubleshooting procedures.

What's next?

Explore logging data across your platform with our logs UI.

• Get deeper visibility into both your application and your platform performance data by forwarding your logs with our logs in context capabilities.
• Set up alerts.
• Query your data and create dashboards.

Disable log forwarding

To disable log forwarding capabilities, you can uninstall the Kubernetes plugin by following the steps outlined here. You do not need to do anything else in New Relic.