Docker look at the log of an exited container

Use docker logs. It also works for stopped containers and captures the entire STDOUT and STDERR streams of the container’s main process:

$ docker run -d --name test debian echo "Hello World"
02a279c37d5533ecde76976d7f9d1ca986b5e3ec03fac31a38e3dbed5ea65def

$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID    IMAGE     COMMAND        CREATED             STATUS                     PORTS               NAMES
49daa9d41a24    debian    "echo test"    2 minutes ago       Exited (0) 2 minutes ago                       test

$ docker logs -t test
2016-04-16T15:47:58.988748693Z Hello World

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