# Verify filebeat is reading logs from a docker container
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/verify-filebeat-is-reading-logs-from-a-docker-container/347365
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** docker, filebeat
**Created:** [November 16, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/verify-filebeat-is-reading-logs-from-a-docker-container/347365 "2023-11-16T20:24:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Jim\_Maroulis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jim_Maroulis)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/verify-filebeat-is-reading-logs-from-a-docker-container/347365/1 "2023-11-16T20:24:08Z")
I am attempting to setup reading logs from a docker container running a web server to filebeat to logstash and I cannot seem to get it right.
My question is how do I verify if filebeat is even getting anything from the web server container? can I simply dump anything it gets to a log or stdout, I cannot figure out how, everything I try I only see a periodic monitor.
For extra credit would also need to run everything in containers but I can skip that for filebeat at the moment.
Obviously I have almost zero experience with these things since I am almost positive this is an easy thing to do that has been done many times before.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/verify-filebeat-is-reading-logs-from-a-docker-container/347365/2 "2023-12-14T22:24:15Z")
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