Reading time: < 1 minute Sometimes when a container is running for a long time especially when docker logs command is called the logs dump is extra long and then a recurrent search on google for reminding how to truncate a file is mandatory for avoiding this repeating task this is the trick that it saves me from that uncomfortable long log dump.
truncate -s 0 $(docker inspect --format='{{.LogPath}}' CONTAINER_ID)
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Python logging library is really flexible and powerful but usually, you need some time for setting up the basics or just for logging in a simple script, some commands and settings have to be done. Daiquiri is a library which wrapper python logging library and offers a simple interface for start enjoying logging features in python. Next, there is a hello world example extracted from Daiquiri documentation which shows how easy it gets nice output from the console when you're programming simple scripts.
Reading time: < 1 minute Specially when you have to look up inside Postfix logs or Syslog in general it could be the swiss knife tool you need: timegrep.
You have to know that the tool is developed using Python. And is very easy to upgrade or fork the code.