Docker logs Command

docker logs : Get the container’s logs

Docker logs Syntax

docker logs [OPTIONS] CONTAINER

OPTIONS Description：

• -f : Track log output
• –since : Show all logs for a certain start time
• -t : Show timestamp
• –tail : List only the latest N container logs

Docker logs Example

Trace the log output of the container mynginx.

docker logs -f mynginx

Output:

apidemos@apidemos:~$ docker logs -f mynginx
192.168.239.1 - - [10/Jul/2016:16:53:33 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 612 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.93 Safari/537.36" "-"
2016/07/10 16:53:33 [error] 5#5: *1 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 192.168.239.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.239.130", referrer: "http://192.168.239.130/"
192.168.239.1 - - [10/Jul/2016:16:53:33 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 571 "http://192.168.239.130/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.93 Safari/537.36" "-"
192.168.239.1 - - [10/Jul/2016:16:53:59 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.93 Safari/537.36" "-"
...

View the latest 10 logs for container mynginx from July 1, 2016 onwards.

docker logs --since="2016-07-01" --tail=10 mynginx