# Access logs inside docker container
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-logs-inside-docker-container/147334
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [September 5, 2018, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-logs-inside-docker-container/147334 "2018-09-05T08:11:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@prasanna12510](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prasanna12510)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-logs-inside-docker-container/147334/1 "2018-09-05T08:11:46Z")
how to configure filebeat to ship logs inside the docker container running separately in same machine
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### Author:  [@elk11](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk11)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-logs-inside-docker-container/147334/2 "2018-09-05T10:09:39Z")
You'll have your container logs at: /var/lib/docker/containers/
Mount this path to some directory in your container ( -v /var/lib/docker/containers:usr/share/filebeat/dockerlogs) when you are deploying a filebeat container and then give use this path to configure your filebeat.
Here's the sample config file:
```
filebeat.prospectors:
- type: log
enabled: true
paths:
- /usr/share/filebeat/dockerlogs/*/*.log
encoding: plain
fields:
document_type: jenkins_container_log
registry: /usr/share/filebeat/data/registry
include_lines: ['failed']
json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log
setup.template:
name: "filebeat"
pattern: "filebeat-*"
settings:
index.number_of_shards: 1
index.number_of_replicas: 1
output.elasticsearch:
hosts: ["xxx:9200"]
index: "filebeat-%{[fields.document_type]}-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}"
```
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### Author:  [@prasanna12510](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prasanna12510)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-logs-inside-docker-container/147334/3 "2018-09-05T10:19:29Z")
my application is running as container and I want to run filebeat as a different container. do I need to mount my container logs for eg: /var/log/supervisor/app.log(inside the container) on the host.
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### Author:  [@elk11](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk11)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2018, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-logs-inside-docker-container/147334/4 "2018-09-05T10:22:48Z")
I think you'll already have container logs on host in /var/lib/docker/containers. Mount this path to some directory on filebeat container.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-logs-inside-docker-container/147334/5 "2018-10-03T10:22:51Z")
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