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Priyanka Sahoo
Priyanka Sahoo

Reputation: 21

How to have the docker container logs on the host machine

Where the docker container console logs are stored. And how can I have the console logs of docker container stored on my host?

I tried below to get the log location. This pointed me to file at /var/lib/docker/containers/ But I dont find any directory called as docker at /var/lib inside the docker container

docker inspect --format='{{.LogPath}}' <container id>

I want to collect the logs which we get from docker logs <containerid> to have/mount it to my host.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1357

Answers (2)

iDeveloper
iDeveloper

Reputation: 1725

   docker logs <CONTAINER_NAME> or <CONTAINER_ID>

like: 

   docker logs container1

The container should be started and running. Very useful to see what happens behind the container execution in context and methods and ...

hope it helped.

Upvotes: 0

itiic
itiic

Reputation: 3712

Try:

docker ps

to find CONTAINER ID

and 

docker inspect <CONTAINER ID>| grep LogPath

to find logs, but a better approach is to use directly:

docker logs <CONTAINER ID>

Upvotes: 1

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