# AliyunContainerService/log-pilot

Collect logs for docker containers

Repository: https://github.com/AliyunContainerService/log-pilot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/log-pilot
Homepage: https://yq.aliyun.com/articles/674327
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: log-pilot, fluentd, filebeat, kubernetes, docker, logging, container
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-08-21T15:12:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3493, "days_push": 1473, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1431, forks 398 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:42.976467+00:00)

## What it is
Log-Pilot is a Docker container log collection tool from Alibaba Cloud that automatically discovers and collects both container stdout and in-container log files. It uses declarative configuration via container labels or environment variables and ships logs to backends like Elasticsearch, Graylog, and Kafka using Fluentd or Filebeat plugins.

## Use cases
- collect logs from docker containers
- ship container stdout and file logs to elasticsearch
- auto-discover container log files in kubernetes
- centralize docker logs with fluentd or filebeat
- collect tomcat access logs from inside containers
- tag container logs for filtering in a log system

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent releases
- you use containerd or non-docker runtimes without docker.sock
- you need a general-purpose log shipper outside container environments

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: logging, monitoring, container-runtime
- domain: monitoring, self-hosted
- platform: go, self-hosted
- tags: log-collection, fluentd, filebeat, container-logs, stdout, declarative-configuration, containers, devops, docker, kubernetes, linux

## Member repositories
- AliyunContainerService/log-pilot (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:42.976467+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:04.629109+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/AliyunContainerService/log-pilot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:42.976467+00:00, sha 642fcbaed233)
  - homepage: https://yq.aliyun.com/articles/674327 (fetched 2026-08-29T11:48:47.960360+00:00, sha f7be6c8fbed5)
  - site_page: https://www.aliyun.com/about/what-is-cloud-computing (fetched 2026-08-29T11:48:47.971917+00:00, sha e5f37aa83b38)
  - site_page: https://www.aliyun.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T11:48:47.969774+00:00, sha 2a1549f39cca)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.