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Managing Application Logs

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In this section, we will take a look at managing application logs

Let us start with logging in docker

ld1

Logs - Kubernetes

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: event-simulator-pod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: event-simulator
    image: kodekloud/event-simulator

logs-k8s

To view the logs
```
$ kubectl logs -f event-simulator-pod
```
If there are multiple containers in a pod then you must specify the name of the container explicitly in the command.
```
$ kubectl logs -f <pod-name> <container-name>
$ kubectl logs -f even-simulator-pod event-simulator
```

K8s Reference Docs

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2015/06/cluster-level-logging-with-kubernetes/