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I am running into a little problem with my Docker logs on a critical piece of infrastructure. Apparently we started the container without the --log-opt max-size setting so the logs now grow at a pretty alarming rate. I would like to avoid having to restart the service but need to limit the amount of logfiles docker is writing to disk.

Is there a way to set the max log size without restarting the container?

We are running docker 1.10.3-0~trusty on `Ubuntu 14.04

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You can use logrotate. It is installed by default on Ubuntu servers and you can check /etc/logrotate.d/ for existing logrotate policies.

Following is an example policy to rotate log files daily. You can copy-paste this to /etc/logrotate.d/docker-logs

/var/lib/docker/containers/*/*.log {
  daily
  rotate 7
  compress
  missingok
  copytruncate
}

You can read more about logrotate here

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    Wow I did not know you can do wildcard signatures for logrotate. I was worried that having different container ids would screw up my logrotate config on restarting/starting new containers. Awesome thank you very much!! – Tigraine Nov 3 '16 at 12:40

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