Filtering Logs in SigNoz with Docker Compose

TLDR Cheslav asked how to filter logs in SigNoz. nitya-signoz explained the limitations of filelog receiver and suggested a solution with a filter operator.

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Cheslav
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 09:34:27 UTC

how do I actually filter the logs of the very SigNoz out?

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nitya-signoz
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:13:20 UTC

You have deployed SigNoz on docker on k8s ?

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Cheslav
Sat, 08 Apr 2023 18:44:38 UTC

on docker with docker-compose

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nitya-signoz
Mon, 10 Apr 2023 11:39:52 UTC

So there are some limitations with filelog recever using otel collector deployed in `docker` as it doesn’t contain much metadata about the container apart from the container ID. One thing you can do is try this solution out and use filter operator to drop logs of signoz