github.com/pwn-term/docker@v0.0.0-20210616085119-6e977cce2565/cli/docs/reference/commandline/logs.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "logs" 3 description: "The logs command description and usage" 4 keywords: "logs, retrieve, docker" 5 --- 6 7 # logs 8 9 ```markdown 10 Usage: docker logs [OPTIONS] CONTAINER 11 12 Fetch the logs of a container 13 14 Options: 15 --details Show extra details provided to logs 16 -f, --follow Follow log output 17 --help Print usage 18 --since string Show logs since timestamp (e.g. 2013-01-02T13:23:37Z) or relative (e.g. 42m for 42 minutes) 19 --until string Show logs before timestamp (e.g. 2013-01-02T13:23:37Z) or relative (e.g. 42m for 42 minutes) 20 -n, --tail string Number of lines to show from the end of the logs (default "all") 21 -t, --timestamps Show timestamps 22 ``` 23 24 ## Description 25 26 The `docker logs` command batch-retrieves logs present at the time of execution. 27 28 > **Note** 29 > 30 > This command is only functional for containers that are started with the 31 > `json-file` or `journald` logging driver. 32 33 For more information about selecting and configuring logging drivers, refer to 34 [Configure logging drivers](https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/configure/). 35 36 The `docker logs --follow` command will continue streaming the new output from 37 the container's `STDOUT` and `STDERR`. 38 39 Passing a negative number or a non-integer to `--tail` is invalid and the 40 value is set to `all` in that case. 41 42 The `docker logs --timestamps` command will add an [RFC3339Nano timestamp](https://golang.org/pkg/time/#pkg-constants) 43 , for example `2014-09-16T06:17:46.000000000Z`, to each 44 log entry. To ensure that the timestamps are aligned the 45 nano-second part of the timestamp will be padded with zero when necessary. 46 47 The `docker logs --details` command will add on extra attributes, such as 48 environment variables and labels, provided to `--log-opt` when creating the 49 container. 50 51 The `--since` option shows only the container logs generated after 52 a given date. You can specify the date as an RFC 3339 date, a UNIX 53 timestamp, or a Go duration string (e.g. `1m30s`, `3h`). Besides RFC3339 date 54 format you may also use RFC3339Nano, `2006-01-02T15:04:05`, 55 `2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999`, `2006-01-02Z07:00`, and `2006-01-02`. The local 56 timezone on the client will be used if you do not provide either a `Z` or a 57 `+-00:00` timezone offset at the end of the timestamp. When providing Unix 58 timestamps enter seconds[.nanoseconds], where seconds is the number of seconds 59 that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap 60 seconds (aka Unix epoch or Unix time), and the optional .nanoseconds field is a 61 fraction of a second no more than nine digits long. You can combine the 62 `--since` option with either or both of the `--follow` or `--tail` options. 63 64 ## Examples 65 66 ### Retrieve logs until a specific point in time 67 68 In order to retrieve logs before a specific point in time, run: 69 70 ```bash 71 $ docker run --name test -d busybox sh -c "while true; do $(echo date); sleep 1; done" 72 $ date 73 Tue 14 Nov 2017 16:40:00 CET 74 $ docker logs -f --until=2s test 75 Tue 14 Nov 2017 16:40:00 CET 76 Tue 14 Nov 2017 16:40:01 CET 77 Tue 14 Nov 2017 16:40:02 CET 78 ```