No logs are displayed

[mtsigeridis]

Hello all,

Great application I love this

I have one issue ; no logs displayed by any container

Thank you

[LordOverlord]

Hi! Thanks for the kind words 🙂

ctop only displays logs that Docker exposes via stdout / stderr. If a container doesn't show logs, it's usually due to one of the following:

• The application writes logs to files instead of stdout/stderr
• A non-default Docker logging driver is being used (ctop works best with json-file)
• The container hasn't produced recent output
• The user running ctop doesn't have sufficient permissions to read container logs

You can verify this by running:

  docker logs <container_name>

If Docker itself doesn't show logs, ctop won't be able to display them either.
This behavior is expected and not a bug in ctop.

This behavior and its limitations are now documented in a maintained fork with updated CI/CD and security improvements:
https://github.com/LordOverlord/ctop

[jr-k]

Check d4s, quick container/compose/swarm management, logs, and exec in one place. https://github.com/jr-k/d4s, actively maintained.