# Installing and running Docker plugin - help with syntax needed
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-and-running-docker-plugin-help-with-syntax-needed/302529
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [April 15, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-and-running-docker-plugin-help-with-syntax-needed/302529 "2022-04-15T22:10:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@paolovalladolid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paolovalladolid)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-and-running-docker-plugin-help-with-syntax-needed/302529/1 "2022-04-15T22:10:24Z")
I get the error
```auto
"docker run" requires at least 1 argument(s).
```
when I run this command
```auto
docker run --log-driver=elastic/elastic-logging-plugin:8.1.2 --log-opt hosts="thehost"
```
I then tried to fix the error by adding what I understand to be the Image that the docker run command requires
```auto
docker run --log-driver=elastic/elastic-logging-plugin:8.1.2 --log-opt hosts="thehost" registry.redhat.io/3scale-amp2/apicast-gateway-rhel8
```
but I get a different error
```auto
/usr/bin/docker-current: Error response from daemon: logger: no log driver named 'elastic/elastic-logging-plugin:8.1.2' is registered.
```
I suspect the real problem is not the log driver, because the plugin shows as enabled when I run `docker plugin ls`
I'm new to Docker so I cannot figure out what I typed wrong in my commands.
The instructions I'm following are of course here:
> **[Install and configure the Elastic Logging Plugin | Elastic Logging Plugin for...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/loggingplugin/current/log-driver-installation.html)**
While the article talks about installing, it does not say anything about **registering** the driver. Should I explicitly register the Elastic log driver?
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### Author:  [@paolovalladolid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paolovalladolid)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-and-running-docker-plugin-help-with-syntax-needed/302529/2 "2022-05-03T22:14:38Z")
What I really need is to pipe the output of "docker logs mycontainer" to our Elastic cluster. This plugin, I guess, tries to live inside the container. I don't think that's what we're looking for.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-and-running-docker-plugin-help-with-syntax-needed/302529/3 "2022-05-31T22:14:58Z")
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