exercise07

Exercise 07: Check Logs

Estimated time

🕓 10 minutes

Exercise description

Before being able to see logs in Kibana, the service application-logs must be bound to the app.

Let's use the CLI to create and bind a service instance to our application.

cf marketplace
cf create-service application-logs lite myapplogs
cf services
cf bind-service cf-nodejs myapplogs
cf restage cf-nodejs

Let's then use the cockpit for checking logs.

1. In the Application Overview page, choose Logs.

🎯 Result: The logs for the application appears. For analysis of logs, you can choose Open Log Analysis. You can also download the logs to your local system.

Let's use the Cloud Foundry command line interface to check resource consumption.

1. Enter the command cf logs {app_name}. This command generates real-time log streams. Initiate an activity to view logs. To exit real-time stream, use Ctrl+C.

2. To view the most recent logs, enter the command, cf logs {app_name} --recent.