How to use awslog driver in to get the logs from the docker container?

Question

I have a docker container running in EC2. The logs in the container are written at /var/log. How do I use the awslog driver to get these logs from the container and store it?

Answer 1

Works fine for me.

1. Create a IAM user in AWS console with the following policy:

   "Version" "2012-10-17" 
    "Statement" 
        "Action" 
            "logs:CreateLogStream" 
            "logs:PutLogEvents" 
            "Effect" "Allow" 
            "Resource"

2. Add AWS credentials to docker host system, add a "aws-credentials.conf"

mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/
touch /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/aws-credentials.conf

3. Insert into aws-credentials.conf

 [Service]
    Environment"AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<aws_access_key_id>" 
    Environment"AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<aws_secret_access_key>"

4. Reboot docker Host and create an Cloudwatch Logstream

5. Add this to your docker-compose (v2) to start logging

   logging 
        driver "awslogs" 
        options 
           awslogs-region "eu-west-1" 
           awslogs-group "my-group" 
           awslogs-stream "my-stream"
   

Tested on Ubuntu 15.10