I got a problem with the logging agent from Google Cloud.
What i wanted was to use the google-fluentd (based on fluentd) on a webserver to collect the logs and sent it to Stackdriver Logging Api.
The server itself is a Google Compute Instance, so the Agent doesn't needs credentials for the Logging Api, as Google mentioned in their documentation. It also provides an external IP-Adress which is necessary for Stackdriver Logging. Scopes for this instance are ok, Stackdriver Logging Api with write permissions.
The installation was successful, thanks to the documentation of google. No errors, the software sends a testlog to the Stackdriver Logging Api, but when I look into stackdriver logging and there are no logs for GCE VM Instances
I looked into the log..
tail -f /var/log/google-fluentd/google-fluentd.log
Again, no errors.
I checked the status of the deamon with
sudo systemctl status google-fluentd
output was active (running)
I restarted the daemon, after that i restarted the instance. Log seems to be ok and daemon is still running fine, but still no logs.
I sent a log with logger "test" the test log was not shown in Stackdriver Api nor in the logs.
What i did next was to install the agent on another System. It worked perfectly. Just the Web-Server had problems with this phenomenon.
Does anybody had that problem before too and knows a solution for this?
This was my second post, so if you need more informations or something i will add them
