As far as I can tell, as long as you submit a properly formatted URL for --log-opt syslog-address, Docker opens a UDP connection to the local syslog agent. I cannot make Docker send syslog data to any other endpoint. Here’s an example: [root@staging-us1-ecs-uswest2-i-066245814:/etc]# dockerd -g /mn…

Docker Syslog Logger doesn't properly use the syslog-address field?

nextdoor (Nextdoor Engineering) May 10, 2017, 8:11pm 2

Ok please ignore this - it turns out that you have to re-create your docker containers for them to receive the new logging configuration.

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