Kubernetes has become the de-facto industry standard for container orchestration. It provides the required abstraction for efficiently managing large-scale containerized applications with declarative configurations, an easy deployment mechanism, and both scaling and self-healing capabilities.

As with any system, logs help engineers gain observability into containers and the Kubernetes clusters they’re running on and the key role they play is evident in a lot of incidents featuring Kubernetes failures. Yet Kubernetes poses a set of unique logging challenges.