Showing posts with label error logging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label error logging. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Install Sentry (an open source error logger) on Azure using Docker containers

Start with an Azure VM: Docker on Ubuntu Server (create one on http://portal.azure.com) Create an account at http://hub.docker.com so you can pull containers. Now, when the VM is fully loaded, login with putty or any other ssh client to your Azure vm and type the following commands:
$ docker login
$ docker search redis ### (optional search for redis)
$ docker pull redis
$ docker pull postgres
$ docker pull sentry
$ docker run -d --name sentry-redis redis
$ docker run -d --name sentry-postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=yourpassword -e POSTGRES_USER=sentry postgres
$ docker run -d --name sentry -p 8080:9000 --link sentry-redis:redis --link sentry-postgres:postgres sentry
$ docker run -it --rm --link sentry-postgres:postgres --link sentry-redis:redis sentry sentry upgrade
$ docker run -d --name sentry-celery1 --link sentry-redis:redis --link sentry-postgres:postgres sentry sentry celery worker
$ docker run -d --name sentry-celery-beat --link sentry-redis:redis --link sentry-postgres:postgres sentry sentry celery beat
For me, the initial user didn't have enough rights, so I created an additional user using:
$ docker run -it --rm --link sentry-redis:redis --link sentry-postgres:postgres sentry sentry createsuperuser
To make the web portal accessible, you'll have to open the port Azure, using Settings - Endpoints:

All kudo's for this post go to: https://hub.docker.com/_/sentry/ for the excellent description, I've only created this post to add the additional docker pull / Azure stuff. I don't know if this is how you want to run it on production, but at least you have a very easy test environment.

Now you can compare this with other error loggers like:

What is your experience with error loggers and monitoring tools and which one would you recommend?

Cheers,
Luuk