# Docker Logging Driver

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/docker-logging-driver/125>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/docker-logging-driver/125 "2015-07-20T07:28:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![flower\_pot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/flower_pot/32/36_2.png) [@flower\_pot](https://forums.suse.com/u/flower_pot)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/docker-logging-driver/125/1 "2015-07-20T07:28:41Z")

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Since docker 1.6.0 it allows setting a log adapter. This is very useful for production setups to send logs to a log aggregator such as logstash/fluentd. It would be amazing if rancher and rancher-compose would support these.

The according PRs to docker-compose for the docker-compose.yml reference:

- log-driver: [https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1388](https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1388)
- log-opt: [https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1665](https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1665)

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**Author:** ![ibuildthecloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/ibuildthecloud/32/8_2.png) [@ibuildthecloud](https://forums.suse.com/u/ibuildthecloud)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/docker-logging-driver/125/2 "2015-07-21T16:53:29Z")

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You’re in luck, we already do! Rancher Labs has contributed a bunch to the log driver (syslog in 1.6 and rollover in 1.8) so we added support for those before docker-compose did. I don’t think there is support in the UI, but rancher-compose should already work with it. Please let me know if it doesn’t work.

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**Author:** ![flower\_pot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/flower_pot/32/36_2.png) [@flower\_pot](https://forums.suse.com/u/flower_pot)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:14am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/docker-logging-driver/125/3 "2015-07-22T06:14:52Z")

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Awesome! Now I just need to wait for the 4th of August to come so I can use the fluentd log driver 😄

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**Author:** ![denise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@denise](https://forums.suse.com/u/denise)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/docker-logging-driver/125/4 "2015-07-23T16:16:56Z")

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