Route Drupal syslog entries to stdout

[grayside]

In docker, logs are picked up from stdout. This is how commands such as docker logs are able to present log activity. We have already got Apache and PHP error logs, but we do not have logs properly routed for applications with their own syslog facility.

Rather than use a technique such as https://www.drupal.org/project/log_stdout, let's configure the container to split off Drupal logs into a dedicated file descriptor, whether that's a standard /var/log location or explicitly stdout.

If it is a /var/log/drupal, we already know how to use symlink magic to reroute that to stdout, check out the Dockerfile.

[snpdev]

I know it's been three years, but I just took an interest in this problem. Did you settle on a resolution? My use case is Drupal running on AKS. I want to capture the Drupal log in Azure Monitor for containers, which consumes STDOUT and STDERR container logs output.

An alternative in Azure is to Create a data pipeline with the Data Collector API which pulls log updates from Blob storgage into Log Analytics, but jumping through hoops in the process.