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  1. Welcome to Telemetry👋
  2. Quick start guide
  3. Ingesting data
    1. Vector (Recommended)
    2. OpenTelemetry
    3. Ingesting via HTTP API
    4. Ingesting metrics
    5. Ingesting logs
      1. Docker & Kubernetes
        1. Docker
        2. Kubernetes
        3. Amazon ECS
        4. Dokku
      2. Operating systems
      3. Log forwarders
      4. Programming languages
      5. Cloud platforms
      6. Web servers & Load balancers
      7. Databases & queues
      8. Storage
    6. Migrating to Better Stack
  4. Telemetry API
    1. Getting an API token
    2. Sources API
    3. Metrics API
    4. Query API
  5. Using the product
    1. Wide events vs. time series
    2. Transforming ingested data
    3. Querying data
    4. Alerts

Better Stack Dokku logging

Start logging in 2 minutes

1. Install

Enable Vector log collection:

Start Vector image
dokku logs:vector-start \
    --vector-image timberio/vector:latest-debian

2. Setup

Download Vector configuration for your source:

Download Vector config
curl -o /var/lib/dokku/data/logs/vector.json \
    https://telemetry.betterstack.com/vector-json/dokku/$SOURCE_TOKEN

3. Start logging 🎉

Run dokku logs:vector-logs to check that Vector started collecting logs.

You should see your logs in Better Stack → Live tail.

Need help?

Please let us know at hello@betterstack.com.
We're happy to help! 🙏

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