Dozzle vs docker logs

Dozzle reads the same logs as docker logs. Nothing is copied or stored, so it never shows anything the command could not. What it changes is how you read them: in a browser, across containers and hosts, without a shell on the server.

At a glance

	Dozzle	docker logs
Where you read them	A browser, from any device	A shell on the Docker host
Several containers	Any set of containers in one merged view, or a whole stack or service	One container. docker compose logs covers a project
Several hosts	One UI for every host, through agents	One host per shell, or a DOCKER_HOST per command
Searching	Search as you type, with regular expressions	Pipe to grep
JSON logs	Formatted and color coded, SQL over fields	Raw lines, pipe to jq
Stack traces	Multi-line entries grouped together	One line at a time
CPU and memory	Charts next to the logs	docker stats in another shell
Sharing	A link to a container, behind authentication	Copy and paste
Install	One container	Already there

When the terminal is enough

If you are already on the host and want the last hundred lines of one container, docker logs --tail 100 -f <name> is the quickest way. For a live view of every container in a terminal, dtop shows them in a docker ps-style table and opens Dozzle when you need the full logs.

When Dozzle fits better

Use Dozzle when more than one person reads the logs, when you would rather not hand out SSH access to read them, or when you are following one request through several containers at once. It is also the easier way to read logs from a phone.

Try it

docker run -d -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v dozzle_data:/data -p 8080:8080 amir20/dozzle:latest

Then open http://localhost:8080. More options are in Getting Started.