Journald Receiver

Status
Stability	alpha
Supported pipeline types	logs
Distributions	contrib

Parses Journald events from systemd journal. Journald receiver is dependent on journalctl binary to be present and must be in the $PATH of the agent.

Configuration

Field	Default	Description
directory	/run/log/journal or /run/journal	A directory containing journal files to read entries from.
files		A list of journal files to read entries from
start_at	end	At startup, where to start reading logs from the file. Options are beginning or end
units	[ssh, kubelet, docker, containerd]	A list of units to read entries from
prioriry	info	Filter output by message priorities or priority ranges

Example Configurations

receivers:
  journald:
    directory: /run/log/journal
    units:
      - ssh
      - kubelet
      - docker
      - containerd
    priority: info