How to monitor AKS WindowsContainer - windows service (eventlog,custom log files) redirected to K8s logs - Streamed out as a docker log so that we can monitor using Azure Monitor

What is LogMonitor: Log Monitor is a log tool for Windows Containers. It monitors configured log sources and pipes a formatted output to STDOUT.

More info here -> https://github.com/microsoft/windows-container-tools/tree/main/LogMonitor

Yaml to deploy it to AKS

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: mikkywinsvc
  labels:
    app: mikkywinsvc
spec:
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      name: mikkywinsvc
      labels:
        app: mikkywinsvc
    spec:
      nodeSelector:
        "kubernetes.io/os": windows
      containers:
      - name: mikkywinsvc
        image: mikkyacr1.azurecr.io/mikkywinsvc1:latest
        resources:
          limits:
            cpu: 1
            memory: 800M
        ports:
          - containerPort: 80
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: mikkywinsvc

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useful commands - AKS

   docker build -t mikkywinsvc1 .
    mikkyacr1.azurecr.io
    az acr login --name mikkyacr1.azurecr.io
    docker image tag mikkywinsvc1:latest mikkyacr1.azurecr.io/mikkywinsvc1:latest
    docker push mikkyacr1.azurecr.io/mikkywinsvc1:latest
    kubectl exec -it mikkywinsvc-798dc868f7-jfc5v -- cmd 

PS: Always use the latest LogMonitor downloaded from here -> https://github.com/microsoft/windows-container-tools/releases/