docker logs  Fetch the logs of a container Usage $ docker logs [OPTIONS] CONTAINER
 Refer to the options section for an overview of available OPTIONS for this command. Description The docker logs command batch-retrieves logs present at the time of execution.  Note This command is only functional for containers that are started with the json-file or journald logging driver.  For more information about selecting and configuring logging drivers, refer to Configure logging drivers. The docker logs --follow command will continue streaming the new output from the container’s STDOUT and STDERR. Passing a negative number or a non-integer to --tail is invalid and the value is set to all in that case. The docker logs --timestamps command will add an RFC3339Nano timestamp , for example 2014-09-16T06:17:46.000000000Z, to each log entry. To ensure that the timestamps are aligned the nano-second part of the timestamp will be padded with zero when necessary. The docker logs --details command will add on extra attributes, such as environment variables and labels, provided to --log-opt when creating the container. The --since option shows only the container logs generated after a given date. You can specify the date as an RFC 3339 date, a UNIX timestamp, or a Go duration string (e.g. 1m30s, 3h). Besides RFC3339 date format you may also use RFC3339Nano, 2006-01-02T15:04:05, 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999, 2006-01-02Z07:00, and 2006-01-02. The local timezone on the client will be used if you do not provide either a Z or a +-00:00 timezone offset at the end of the timestamp. When providing Unix timestamps enter seconds[.nanoseconds], where seconds is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap seconds (aka Unix epoch or Unix time), and the optional .nanoseconds field is a fraction of a second no more than nine digits long. You can combine the --since option with either or both of the --follow or --tail options. For example uses of this command, refer to the examples section below. Options    Name, shorthand Default Description     --details  Show extra details provided to logs   
--follow , -f
  Follow log output   --since  Show logs since timestamp (e.g. 2013-01-02T13:23:37Z) or relative (e.g. 42m for 42 minutes)   
--tail , -n
 all Number of lines to show from the end of the logs   
--timestamps , -t
  Show timestamps   --until  Show logs before a timestamp (e.g. 2013-01-02T13:23:37Z) or relative (e.g. 42m for 42 minutes)    Examples Retrieve logs until a specific point in time In order to retrieve logs before a specific point in time, run: $ docker run --name test -d busybox sh -c "while true; do $(echo date); sleep 1; done"
$ date
Tue 14 Nov 2017 16:40:00 CET
$ docker logs -f --until=2s test
Tue 14 Nov 2017 16:40:00 CET
Tue 14 Nov 2017 16:40:01 CET
Tue 14 Nov 2017 16:40:02 CET
 

    
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