It depends on your OS. Here are the few locations, with commands for few Operating Systems:
- Ubuntu (old using upstart ) –
/var/log/upstart/docker.log
- Ubuntu (new using systemd ) –
sudo journalctl -fu docker.service
- Amazon Linux AMI –
/var/log/docker
- Boot2Docker –
/var/log/docker.log
- Debian GNU/Linux –
/var/log/daemon.log
- CentOS –
cat /var/log/message | grep docker
- CoreOS –
journalctl -u docker.service
- Fedora –
journalctl -u docker.service
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server –
/var/log/messages | grep docker
- OpenSuSE –
journalctl -u docker.service
- macOS –
~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/log/vm/docker.log
- Windows –
Get-EventLog -LogName Application -Source Docker -After (Get-Date).AddMinutes(-5) | Sort-Object Time
, as mentioned here.