How to generate centralized logs for spring boot microservices?

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Suppose I have a micro service 1 running in server A and and service 2 is running in server B. The UI/client code is deployed in server 3. I would like to generate the logs for both the micro services in my UI server. However individual logs are generated for microservices in their own servers as mentioned in applications.properties , logging.path.

Question is how can we generate all logs in one place, say in UI /client server.Can it be be achieved in spring cloud config? or if not , can you help me mentioning some steps.?

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the easiest way to go is by using spring boot admin, your logs will be exposed via an Actuator endpoint so that you see all your logs from admin console.

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You would deploy a central logging server (e.g. Graylog https://www.graylog.org/). Then add a logging appender to every microservice, that will report to the logging server.

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Quite popular solution is ELK stack.

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There are so many options available in market ..

if you are looking for logging with analytics , log monitoring and alerts - then you can use centralized system for logs.

Centralized system such as Splunk or Stackify - are very good at logging and effective handling.

There is one more platform called - Loggly , it is kind of Laas - logging as a service

For ex to start with you can check out the implementation for splunk -

Overview 

http://dev.splunk.com/view/splunk-logging-java/SP-CAAAE2K

implementation 

http://dev.splunk.com/view/splunk-logging-java/SP-CAAAE3R
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