# How to clear logs for docker CE on premises

**URL:** https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/how-to-clear-logs-for-docker-ce-on-premises/4421
**Category:** How to implement?
**Tags:** v2
**Created:** [February 7, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/how-to-clear-logs-for-docker-ce-on-premises/4421 "2023-02-07T09:58:27Z")
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### Author: ![Yomtidom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/2acd7d/32.png) [@Yomtidom](https://openvidu.discourse.group/u/Yomtidom)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/how-to-clear-logs-for-docker-ce-on-premises/4421/1 "2023-02-07T09:58:27Z")

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I installed OpenVidu CE 2.25 with docker on a ubuntu VM. How do I clear all the logs (kms etc)? All I find is a folder kurento-logs. Thanks!

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### Author: ![pabloFuente](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openvidu.discourse.group/pablofuente/32/2536_2.png) [@pabloFuente](https://openvidu.discourse.group/u/pabloFuente)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/how-to-clear-logs-for-docker-ce-on-premises/4421/2 "2023-02-07T10:24:58Z")

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The OpenVidu CE deployment is by default configured to store 100MB of logs in the Docker Daemon (these are the logs that you can access with command `docker logs ...`).  
Besides this, Kurento logs are also stored without limit in path `/opt/openvidu/kurento-logs`. If you want to clean these logs, just clean path `/opt/openvidu/kurento-logs`.

Cheers.

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### Author: ![Yomtidom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/2acd7d/32.png) [@Yomtidom](https://openvidu.discourse.group/u/Yomtidom)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/how-to-clear-logs-for-docker-ce-on-premises/4421/3 "2023-02-07T11:14:53Z")

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Thanks for the tip. I found the kurento logs folder and delete d them. But command ‘openvidu logs’ and ‘docker-compose logs -f’ still show many many log entries which I dont need anymore. How I clear these?

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### Author: ![pabloFuente](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openvidu.discourse.group/pablofuente/32/2536_2.png) [@pabloFuente](https://openvidu.discourse.group/u/pabloFuente)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 11:23am UTC](https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/how-to-clear-logs-for-docker-ce-on-premises/4421/4 "2023-02-07T11:23:16Z")

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This is Docker territory. Be careful: you may corrupt the container logs. We do not recommend doing this, but if you want just do a quick search online:

- [https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-clear-logs-of-running-docker-containers/](https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-clear-logs-of-running-docker-containers/)
- [How to Clear Log Files of A Docker Container – TecAdmin](https://tecadmin.net/truncate-docker-container-logfile/)
- [https://khoirul.id/how-to-clear-docker-logs-and-activate-log-rotate/](https://khoirul.id/how-to-clear-docker-logs-and-activate-log-rotate/)

If you want to customize the logging of a Docker deployment, you should research the logging Docker configuration, which allows you to change the rotation size of the log files and their duration: [Configure logging drivers | Docker Documentation](https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/logging/configure/)

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### Author: ![Yomtidom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/2acd7d/32.png) [@Yomtidom](https://openvidu.discourse.group/u/Yomtidom)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://openvidu.discourse.group/t/how-to-clear-logs-for-docker-ce-on-premises/4421/5 "2023-02-07T11:39:43Z")

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Ah alright. I was hoping for a built-in switch to clean it up. Thanks!
