# Kubernetes Logs

If you use Docker or Podman as your container runtime, you can stream your container logs to Baselime by using Fluentbit DaemonSet as your logging driver

# How to configure

First create a configuration yaml

 custom-values.yaml
apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY"

Obtain your API key from the console Baselime console.

Next install the Baselime Helm chart

helm repo add baselime-logs-exporter https://baselime.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update
helm install baselime-logs-exporter baselime-logs-exporter/baselime-logs-exporter --values custom-values.yaml

# Best practices

We expect the log messages to be in JSON format. For example:

 main.go
package main

import (
	"log/slog"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	logger := slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(os.Stdout, nil))
	logger.Info("Hello, logs!", "extra", map[string]interface{}{
		"stringField": "stringVal",
		"objectField": map[string]interface{}{
			"nestedField": "nestedVal",
		},
	})
}

# How it works

DaemonSet provided above creates an instance of FluentBit pod on each node in your cluster. The FluentD pod reads the logs from the /var/log/containers/*.log and /var/log/pods/*.log directories and sends them to Baselime over HTTPS.

You can find example implementation in our GitHub repository