How to tail a docker log from the current position in the log without seeing the whole file or waiting for it to traverse the whole file

I wonder why don’t use docker logs --help for help? Try below, starting from the last 10 lines. More details here.

docker logs -f --tail 10 container_name

Alternatively, we can check the log by time (eg. since last 2mins) as:

docker logs --since=2m <container_id> // since last 2 minutes
docker logs --since=1h <container_id> // since last 1 hour

use the --tail switch:

>  docker logs -f <container name> --tail 10

this will show the log starting from the last 10 lines onwards