$ dok logs

Tail logs from one or more containers with level colouring

Synopsis

dok logs [OPTIONS] [CONTAINERS]...

Description

Interleaves the logs of several containers, each in a stable colour. The separator turns red for stderr, and JSON log lines are expanded into level, message and key=value pairs.

With no container named, dok tails every running container.

Arguments

[CONTAINERS]...: Container names or ids; omit to tail every running container

Options

-f, --follow: Keep streaming
-n, --tail <TAIL>: Lines of history per containerdefault: 40
-t, --timestamps: Show container timestamps
-g, --grep <GREP>: Only lines containing this substring

Every command also takes the global options: --json, --color, --icons and --theme.

Examples

$ dok logs  # every running container

$ dok logs api db -f  # follow two of them

$ dok logs api -n 200 -t  # 200 lines with timestamps

$ dok logs api -g error  # only matching lines

Output

JSON output

$ dok logs -n 4 --json
{"container": "demo-shop-api-1", "message": "{\"level\":\"info\",\"msg\":\"listening\",\"port\":3000,\"env\":\"production\"}", "stream": "stdout", "timestamp": "2026-09-27T09:56:20.340Z"}
{"container": "demo-shop-postgres-1", "message": "LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections", "stream": "stderr", "timestamp": "2026-09-27T09:56:27.340Z"}

NDJSON: one object per line, flushed as it arrives. First two lines shown.