RFC/Feature Get logs from multiple containers

[shazada]

We have an enterprise customer and I want to develop a new feature to get logs from multiple containers from the

https://github.com/OrderOfTheBee/ootbee-support-tools/blob/master/repository/src/main/resources/alfresco/templates/webscripts/org/orderofthebee/support-tools/admin/ootbee-support-tools/log4j-loggers.get.js

• Is it even possible?
• If so what would be the best approach to get this done

[AFaust]

I assume you mean to collect all the logs from the ACS nodes in a cluster to avoid issues with load balancing / proxying preventing targeted access to individual containers. The simplest option - assuming containers have HTTP(S) network connectivity amongst each other - would be to have a relay functionality similar to how the Transformations tool allows access to the T-Engine logs. The members of the cluster could be looked up via the Enterprise internal service(s) related to clustering, while some configuration may be needed to address non-standard HTTP(S) ports or NAT situations between containers. The code would have to be adaptive to differentiate an Enterprise system from a Community one so the correct feature/code is used. Also, if implemented in this project, it would need to be done in a way that does not introduce a hard dependency on Enterprise JARs. We already do this in some places, e.g. handling cache statistics lookup, but this involves use of reflection etc.

[shazada]

Ok great, yeah I was thinking the same to collect the enterprise clustering information to collect data.
My other Idea was to use the Log4j OTEL https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/logs/supplementary-guidelines/ and in the api collect this from OTEL specific for Alfresco and show-case the data in the Interface.

What do you think about this idea?