# File beats in docker. How to access host logs?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-in-docker-how-to-access-host-logs/127313
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [April 9, 2018, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-in-docker-how-to-access-host-logs/127313 "2018-04-09T11:31:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-in-docker-how-to-access-host-logs/127313/1 "2018-04-09T11:31:04Z")
Hi,
I am thinking of running filebeat in a docker container. But I wanna ship logs from the host.
What is the best practice?
Use a volume to make the host logs accessible from inside of the docker container? Or how?
Thanks, Andreas
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-in-docker-how-to-access-host-logs/127313/2 "2018-04-09T16:54:32Z")
Exactly. Log files of the host are are available under `/var/lib/docker/containers`. You need to mount this in order to access them and use `docker` prospector to read.
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### Author:  [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-in-docker-how-to-access-host-logs/127313/3 "2018-04-09T17:30:29Z")
thanks. I keep that in mind if I need need to ship from other containers.
When I want to ship logs of classic applications from the host, which are not running in docker, then I just mount the host logfile from eg. /var/log/myapplication into the filebeat container and then I use normal file prospector in filebeat, which runs as docker, correct?
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-in-docker-how-to-access-host-logs/127313/4 "2018-04-09T17:32:11Z")
Yes, it's correct.
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### Author:  [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-in-docker-how-to-access-host-logs/127313/5 "2018-04-09T17:34:54Z")
thanks a lot
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beats-in-docker-how-to-access-host-logs/127313/6 "2018-05-07T17:35:02Z")
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