Rsyslog Containers

This section covers the official rsyslog container images and points to higher-level deployment profiles built on top of them.

Rsyslog runs well inside containers and the project provides official Docker images for common logging scenarios. Dockerfiles and build recipes live under packaging/docker.

Since version 8.32.0 rsyslog also adjusts a few defaults when it detects that it is running as PID 1 inside a container: Ctrl-C is handled and no pid file is written.

For complete production deployments with dashboards and monitoring, see Production Deployments.

• User-Focused Images
  • rsyslog/rsyslog-minimal
  • rsyslog/rsyslog
  • rsyslog/rsyslog-collector
  • rsyslog/rsyslog-dockerlogs
  • rsyslog/rsyslog-etl
• Development and Historical Images

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