Category: Resilience

Introduction For improved observability and troubleshooting, it is recommended to ship container logs from the compute platform to a container running on to a centralized logging server. In the real world, the logging server may occasionally be unreachable or unable to accept logs. There is an architectural tradeoff when designing for log server failures. Service […]

Logging provides an easy way to observe the behavior of your container-based application. At AWS, we offer customers several choices for configuring logging. Many customers will start with the simplest or default option. I recently helped diagnose a customer issue that we traced back to container logging configuration. In short, we discovered that an application […]