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You can send logs from Docker, Docker Cloud, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and other Docker-based platforms to SignalFlex. They can be transformed and then forwarded to other tools.

Docker
Below are two ways of forwarding your Docker logs to SignalFlex. 
Option 1 
The SignalFlex logspout container lets you send logs from Docker, Docker Cloud, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and other Docker-based platforms. The container automatically collects logs generated by other containers running on the host and sends them to SignalFlex. The container is based on Logspout.
To log a standard Docker deployment, deploy an instance of the SignalFlex logspout container. Make sure to replace the following values (these also apply to all of the following deployment methods):
SIGNALFLEX_KEY: Required. Your SignalFlex API key
SIGNALFLEX_PIPELINE_ID: Required. Your SignalFlex pipeline to process logs.
FILTER_NAME: Optional. The name of the specific container to monitor.
FILTER_LABELS: Optional. A comma-separated list of labels to use to filter specific containers.
HOSTNAME: Optional. An alternate hostname other than the one detected by the container.
TAGS: Optional. A comma-separated list of tags to apply to logs processed by this container.
sudo docker run --name="signalflex" --restart=always \
    -d -v=/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    -e SIGNALFLEX_KEY="YOUR-SIGNALFLEX-KEY" \
    -e SIGNALFLEX_PIPELINE_ID="SIGNALFLEX-PIPELINE-PROCESS-YOUR-LOGS"
    -e FILTER_NAME="CONTAINER-NAME" \
    -e FILTER_LABELS="COMMA-SEPARATED-LABELS" \
    -e HOSTNAME="ALTERNATIVE-HOSTNAME" \
    -e TAGS="COMMA-SEPARATED-TAGS" \
    signalflex/logspout:latest
Option 2
Use Vector and use Docker source in Vector configuration file. 
Step 1. Create Vector configuration file vector.toml, add the following:
Replace container_id pipeline_id, and api_key accordingly
data_dir = "/vector"
​
[sources.in]
  type = "docker"
  include_containers = [${container_id}]
​
[sinks.out]
  inputs   = ["in"]
  type     = "http"
  encoding.codec = "text"
  headers.pipeline = $SIGNALFLEX_PIPELINE_ID
  headers.api_key = $SIGNALFLEX_KEY
  uri = "http://localhost:8080/batch"
Step 2. Start vector
$vector --config vector.toml
After above steps are finished, your logs will be collected by Vector and sent to SignalFlex. 

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