Hello! The other day I got an alert on one server. The disk space was almost full, even though there is just a simple app controlled by a docker-compose.
It turned out one of the application was ElasticSearch, and the log file size of this container was... 10G.
So I had to find a way to remove and rotate the logs of this container.
Adding this part to the docker-compose.yml
:
version: '3'
services:
app:
...
logging:
driver: "json-file"
options:
max-size: "100m"
max-file: "10"
You can control how docker will deal with the logs: choose a log driver, the max size of the log file, and the number of files. Pretty convenient!
The official documentation here: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#/logging
Note: You can directly configure the logs at the docker daemon level. Checkout out here: https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/configure/#configure-the-default-logging-driver
To get further
Limit the log size on the system is great, but the best is to send the logs to a logs aggregator such as Loki or Elasticsearch!
Top comments (1)
Right link for anchor is docs.docker.com/compose/compose-fi...
Thanks for this informations. Very useful.