Adding log visibility to Amazon ECS with Papertrail

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Amazon ECS provides access to Docker’s logging driver settings at the container level through the standard task definition interface.

Under “Storage and Logging” is the ability to define a log driver and log options. For Papertrail select syslog as the log driver and add a single log option: syslog-address containing your Papertrail log destination, e.g. udp://logs1.papertrailapp.com:10010.