Walvis

Walvis is a small lightweight application with a web based interface to monitor Docker logs. It is for live monitoring of your container logs only.

• Start some containers and check your browser

Features

• Search for containers.
• Get all your running containers list.
• Realtime docker container logs with date and time.
• Support for tail and all logs.
• Get realtime stats of your containers.

Tech

Walvis uses a number of tools and frameworks:

• [Express] - Used to build the backend server.
• [Dockerode] - For getting docker container related details.
• [NuxtJS] - For building the frontend along with Vue.
• [Vuetify] - UI library used for Walvis.
• [SocketIO] - For real time streaming of stats and logs.
• [Docker] - Without docker, there are no logs.
• [Docker-Compose] - For building images and starting containers.

and Walvis itself :)

Installation

Walvis requires Node 14.17.3

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

Create a .env file in the client folder and add the following:

HOST=0.0.0.0
PORT=3000

BASE_URL=http://localhost:8000

Then create a .env file in the base folder and add the following:

PORT=8000
HOST=0.0.0.0
ENV=LOCAL

JWT_SECRET=

# install dependencies
$ npm install

Docker

Run the Docker images and map the port to whatever you wish on your host. Note: It is mandatory to provide the volume, otherwise the container will not be able to get the logs.

docker run -p 8000:8000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -d saptarshisg96/walvis-logger:latest

You can then see the logger working on

http://127.0.0.1:8000