Log Drains let you route the logs captured by Aptible to logging destinations for review, alerting, and archiving.

Types of Log Drains

• aptible logs Log Drains
• Self-Hosted Elasticsearch Log Drains
• HTTPS Log Drains
• Syslog Log Drains

Managing Log Drains

Log Drains for an Environment can be managed by navigating to the Environment's "Log Drains" tab in the Dashboard. From here, Log Drains can be created, restarted, or deleted.

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Tip

For step-by-step instructions on setting up a Log Drain on Aptible, see this tutorial: Setting up Logging.

Disaster Log Archiving

Once you have configured Log Drains for your Environments, it is recommended to also configure Disaster Log Archiving to S3 as a secondary method for retaining logs.