Hi, I am using docker 1.11.2. I am trying to specify the max file size for json-file in docker-compose.yml, like this, log-opt: max-size=50m but when I tried to docker-compose up, it threw me an error, ERROR: In file './docker-compose.yml', service 'log-opt' must be a mapping not a string. How …

It seems to me you had a typo the first try. According to the docs , the setting should be called log_opt instead of log-opt. I tried the following YML (docker 1.12.1, docker-compose 1.8.0) and it works: elasticsearch: image: elasticsearch log_opt: max-size: 50m

Hi, yes, it works, figured it out last minute.

How to specify max log json file size in docker compose?

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nettech October 24, 2021, 3:11pm 4

is there a default location for docker-compose.yml or it’s container specific ?

thanks

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How to specify max log json file size in docker compose?

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