By default there are no Docker does not rotate logs of the containers. This might cause disk space issues when there is something that is intensively logging.
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Globally
You can set a limit in the /etc/docker/daemon.json file. Afterwards restart docker
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{
"log-driver": "json-file",
"log-opts": {"max-size": "10m", "max-file": "3"}
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Docker Compose
It is also possible to set this via the docker compose configuration.
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version: '3'
services:
my_service:
logging:
driver: "json-file"
options:
max-size: "5m" |
Clearing logs manually
Running truncate -s 0 /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log will clear ALL logs.
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