Error: warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s

[Joshua-Igoni]

so am deploying a set of containers (docker_compose), with journald as the logging driver, using fluentd as the my logging tool.
in my config below I set my source section with the input plugin @systemd.

<source>
    @type systemd
    tag "dockerd"
    path "/var/log/journal"
    read_from_head true
  </source>
  <filter dockerd>
    @type record_transformer
    <record>
      hostname 64ab592dab1f
    </record>
  </filter>
  <match dockerd>
    @type copy
    <store>
      @type "file"
      path "/outputs/iotc.log"
      compress gzip
      append true
      <buffer>
        @type "memory"
        flush_mode immediate
        flush_at_shutdown true
        flush_thread_count 6
        path /outputs/iotc.log
      </buffer>
    </store>
    <store>
      @type "elasticsearch"
      host "<my_hostip>"
      port 9200
      logstash_format true
      scheme https
      ssl_verify false
      user "user"
      password xxxxxx
      <buffer>
        flush_at_shutdown true
        flush_interval 1s
      </buffer>
    </store>
  </match>

I have also bind the "var/log/journal" directory in docker-compose, but am getting the following error. is there something am not specifying in the config? the error am getting is shown below.

 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:09 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:10 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:11 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:12 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:13 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:14 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:15 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:16 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:17 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:18 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:19 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:20 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:21 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:22 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:23 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:24 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:25 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:26 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:27 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:28 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:29 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:30 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:31 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:32 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s
2022-09-18 09:02:33 +0000 [warn]: #0 Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory retrying in 1s

i would really appreciate the help