Show Docker container logs

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Date: 2020-07-20 15:15:32 00:00


If you need to check the logs of a Docker compose created container, just go to the folder where the docker-compose.yml file is and run these commands.

docker-compose ps

That will have an output like this:

Name              Command               State                                                  Ports
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mail   supervisord -c /etc/superv ...   Up      110/tcp, 143/tcp, 0.0.0.0:25->25/tcp, 4190/tcp, 0.0.0.0:465->465/tcp, 0.0.0.0:587->587/tcp, 993/tcp,
                                            995/tcp

Now we know the container name, (mail in this case)

So we can run:

docker-compose logs mail

Or:

docker-compose -f logs mail