Logs, the comic

Everything the kitchen says, on one roll.

The same kitchen as the other comics, with the sound on. Every cook talks while cooking, and on the Logs page all of it lands on one long roll, in the order it was said.

1 Everyone talking at once

Every cook talks while cooking: what a container writes is its log. The Logs page puts everything all running cooks say on one long roll, in the order it was said.

A cook who starts joins the roll by themselves, and one who stops leaves it. Nobody has to be added by hand.

Because it is all in the order it was said, you read what happened in the kitchen as it happened, not cook by cook.

2 Finding the line

Only want the shouting? Show just the lines that carry an error or a warning.

Look for a word, or for an expression such as /error|warn/, case-sensitive if you like.

Or follow only the cooks of one dinner: the logs of a single compose project.

3 Microphones

Switch a cook’s microphone off, and what they say is not just hidden: it is no longer fetched at all.

One click turns every microphone back on.

Want the whole diary of one cook? Save it as a file, from that cook’s own page.

4 Honest filters

The lines under an error do not always say ERROR themselves, like the steps of what went wrong. The level filter hides those too, and the app says that it did.

How many lines the filter hides is always in view, so an empty roll never looks like a quiet kitchen.

In Docker Client MX: the Logs page, one roll for the whole kitchen, and a filter that says what it hides.

The cheat sheet

Every picture above, in Docker words.

What a cook says out loud: A container’s log
The long roll on the wall: The Logs page: one stream, in time order
A cook who starts or stops: A container joining or leaving the stream
Only the shouting: The errors and warnings filter
The magnifying glass: Search, also with an expression
The cooks of one dinner: One compose project
A microphone switched off: A container switched off: no longer fetched
The whole diary of one cook: The log saved as a file
The mumbling under a shout: Lines without a level, such as a stack trace
“42 hidden”: The count of filtered lines

Now listen to your own kitchen.

Every running container in one stream, filtered by level, project or container, with a count of what the filter hides.

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