Export logs to ElasticSearch/Kibana

In this tutorial, you will learn how to export Devbox logs into ElasticSearch/Kibana stack using aidbox-cli.
Configure ElasticSearch & Kibana
So first of all, let's add to Devbox docker-compose file Elastic & Kibana:
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services:
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  ...
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  elasticsearch:
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    image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.0.0
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    volumes:
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      - ./esdata:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
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    environment:
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      - cluster.name=aidbox-cluster
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      - bootstrap.memory_lock=true
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      - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"
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      - discovery.type=single-node
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    ulimits:
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      memlock:
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        soft: -1
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        hard: -1
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    ports:
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      - "9200:9200"
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  kibana:
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    links:
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      - "elasticsearch:elasticsearch"
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    image: docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.0.0
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    ports:
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      - "5601:5601"
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    environment:
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      ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS: http://elasticsearch:9200
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  ....
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Configure Aidbox & aidbox-cli 
Next step is to configure Devbox logging into the file system. We have to mount logs volume and provide AIDBOX_LOGS env variable set to path to logs file:
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services:
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  devbox:
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    image: "${DEVBOX_IMAGE}"
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    depends_on:
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      - "devbox-db"
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    links:
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      - "devbox-db:database"
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    ports:
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      - "8888:8888"
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    volumes:
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    - "./logs:/logs"
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    environment:
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      ....
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      AIDBOX_LOGS: '/logs/devbox'
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  devbox-db:
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    ...
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  logexp:
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    links:
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      - "elasticsearch:elasticsearch"
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    image: 'aidbox/aidbox-cli:0.0.1-RC1'
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    command: ["/aidbox", "es", "logs", "-l", "http://elasticsearch:9200/logs", "-f", "/logs/devbox"]
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    volumes:
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    - "./logs:/logs"
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In the volumes section we mount logs directory as a volume to devbox (Devbox)  service and do the same for aidbox-cli (logexp) service. Devbox will log into /logs/devbox file and aidbox-cli will read this file and send logs into elasticsearch service.
Logger use elastic url prefix  http://elasticsearch:9200/logs and send logs into index like thishttp://lasticsearch:9200/logs-2019-08-01/logs , i.e. index prefix-<date> will be used as an index name.  You can use pattern logs-* to search in indexes in kibana.
Resulting docker-compose file should similar to  docker-compose.yaml. Do not forget to replace LICENSE_ID & KEY with your license information.
Start Devbox and all services
Now it's time to start your services:
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docker-compose -d up
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Configure ElasticSearch & Kibana

Configure Aidbox & aidbox-cli

Start Devbox and all services