Docker Provider

Provides inventory information from Docker. The available dynamic variables are:

Key	Type	Description
`docker.container.id`	`string`	ID of the container
`docker.container.name`	`string`	Name of the container
`docker.container.image.name`	`string`	Image of the container
`docker.container.labels`	`object`	Labels of the container

To set the container ID dynamically in the configuration, use a variable in the Elastic Agent policy to return container ID information from the provider:

		inputs:
  - id: 'docker-container-logs-${docker.container.id}'
    type: filestream
    paths:
      - '/var/lib/docker/containers/${docker.container.id}/*-json.log'

	

Sample of the policy generated by this configuration will look like:

		inputs:
  - id: docker-container-logs-b9b898d9c2a1126384d38e9f857b3985480cd05c8e74ffc8b628d92245f5a103
    streams:
      paths:
      - /var/lib/docker/containers/b9b898d9c2a1126384d38e9f857b3985480cd05c8e74ffc8b628d92245f5a103/*-json.log
    processors:
    - add_fields:
        fields:
          id: b9b898d9c2a1126384d38e9f857b3985480cd05c8e74ffc8b628d92245f5a103
          image: image-name:latest
          labels:
            key: value
          name: container-name
        target: container
  - id: docker-container-596bbd114498253985e6a5c4f0f7bf2d9eb8fcd4fe3e6cb53bdfba0cdc7036c8
    type: filestream
    streams:
      paths:
      - /var/lib/docker/containers/596bbd114498253985e6a5c4f0f7bf2d9eb8fcd4fe3e6cb53bdfba0cdc7036c8/*-json.log
    processors:
    - add_fields:
        fields:
          id: 596bbd114498253985e6a5c4f0f7bf2d9eb8fcd4fe3e6cb53bdfba0cdc7036c8
          image: other-image-name:latest
          labels:
            key: value
          name: other-container-name
        target: container

	

Note

Docker provider ensures that each docker container event is enriched with the container’s metadata, and hence the inputs will be populated with the add_fields processor which will be responsible for adding the proper container’s metadata.