Service Log Collection

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Automatic Service Detection

When container_and_service_enable is set to true, Glouton automatically detects all known services running on the machine — whether they run as host services or inside containers — and starts collecting their logs without any per-service configuration.

log.opentelemetry.auto_discovery.container_and_service_enable: true

This option is also enabled when using all_enable.

Each service has a built-in log format that parses log lines into structured fields (e.g., HTTP method, status code, client IP, severity level).

Supported Services

Service	Host Log Files	Container Format
Apache	/var/log/apache2/access.log, /var/log/apache2/error.log	apache_both
Nginx	/var/log/nginx/access.log, /var/log/nginx/error.log	nginx_both
PostgreSQL	/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-*-main.log	postgresql_docker
MySQL	/var/log/mysql/error.log	mysql_docker
Redis	/var/log/redis/redis-server.log	redis_docker
Valkey	/var/log/valkey/valkey-server.log	valkey_docker
Kafka	containers only	kafka_docker
HAProxy	containers only	haproxy_docker
MongoDB	containers only	mongodb_docker
RabbitMQ	containers only	rabbitmq_docker

For the complete list of built-in formats, see Log Formats & Filters.