Finding a string in docker logs of container

Question

What is the best way to find a specific string in the logs of a docker container? Let\'s say I want to see all requests, that are made in the \"nginx\" docker image that came fr

Answer 1

To follow up on the comments and clarify this for anyone else hitting this issue. Here is the simplest way I can see to search an nginx container log.

docker logs nginx > stdout.log 2>stderr.log
cat stdout.log | grep "127."

IMO its kinda messy because you need to create and delete these potentially very large files. Hopefully we'll get some tooling to make it a bit more convenient.