This page provides instructions on setting up and accessing historical logs on the PlexTrac server. This process leverages the journald logging driver that uses the Linux logging system as a storage backend and allows access to historical logs after a container has been updated or restarted.
Command-line access to the server with PlexTrac installed and running
Step 1: As root, enable journald globally by adding this configuration to /etc/docker/daemon.json
:
This file may not exist. If this is the case, it will need to be created.
Step 2: Restart the docker service.
Step 3: Add plextrac user to the systemd-journal group.
Step 4: As the plextrac user, update the system using this command.
As a plextrac user, invoke the journalctl
command to view logs.
Examples:
Available containers to pull logs from:
plextrac-postgres-1
plextrac-redis
plextrac-plextracdb-1
plextrac-plextracnginx-1
plextrac-plextracapi-{1,2,3}
plextrac-couchbase-migrations-1
plextrac-notification-sender-1
plextrac-notification-engine-1
Refer to the official configuration definition page for journald.