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 in the Docker documentation.

Configuration parameters

This plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

Key	Description	Default
buffer_size	The size of the buffer used to read docker events in bytes.	8192
key	When a message is unstructured (no parser applied), it's appended as a string under the key name message.	message
parser	Specify the name of a parser to interpret the entry as a structured message.	none
reconnect.retry_interval	The retry interval in seconds.	1
reconnect.retry_limits	The maximum number of retries allowed. The plugin tries to reconnect with docker socket when EOF is detected.	5
threaded	Indicates whether to run this input in its own thread.	false
unix_path	The docker socket Unix path.	/var/run/docker.sock

Get started

To capture Docker events, you can run the plugin from the command line or through the configuration file.

Command line

From the command line you can run the plugin with the following options:

fluent-bit -i docker_events -o stdout

Configuration file

In your main configuration file, append the following:

fluent-bit.yaml

pipeline:
  inputs:
    - name: docker_events

  outputs:
    - name: stdout
      match: '*'

fluent-bit.conf