Docker Events

The docker events input plugin uses the docker API to capture server events. A complete list of possible events returned by this plugin can be found here

Configuration Parameters

This plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

Key Description Default
Unix_Path The docker socket unix path /var/run/docker.sock
Buffer_Size The size of the buffer used to read docker events (in bytes) 8192
Parser Specify the name of a parser to interpret the entry as a structured message. None
Key When a message is unstructured (no parser applied), it’s appended as a string under the key name message. message

Command Line

  1. $ fluent-bit -i docker_events -o stdout

Configuration File

In your main configuration file append the following Input & Output sections:

  1. [INPUT]
  2. Name docker_events
  3. [OUTPUT]
  4. Name stdout
  5. Match *