Docker: Pipe output of Emby Server to Docker Logs

[sydlexius 297]

I searched and didn't find anything, so I thought I'd request a modification to your docker logs to continue outputting after the "All entry points have started" message?  Ideally, this could be governed by an environmental variable for those who don't want to worry about their docker logs directory getting blown up.  To be clear, I want to see output from Emby Server logging when I run something like docker logs EmbyServer -f.

Edited February 14, 2024 by sydlexius

[Luke 42077]

Hi, yes I suppose an option for this is reasonable.

[sydlexius 297]

20 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, yes I suppose an option for this is reasonable.

I know there are probably a few ways, but based on what little research I've done, you could have an environmental variable like OutputLogsToDocker set to 1, and have an additional service called /etc/services.d/emby-logger, where its run script might look like this:

 

#!/usr/bin/with-contenv sh
# Check if OutputLogsToDocker is set to 1
if [ "${OutputLogsToDocker}" = "1" ]; then
    # Tail the log file and output to stdout
    exec tail -F /config/logs/logfiles.txt
else
    # Do not tail the log file; just sleep indefinitely
    # This keeps the service running without doing anything
    exec sleep infinity
fi

 

[Neminem 1518]

I would like this too.

Then we could use amir20/dozzle: Realtime log viewer for docker containers. (github.com)

to view Emby logs, and know what it is doing.

Right now it only shows

[plsharevme 1]

yup, my dozzle also only these logs, and make it no easy to see what to the spot embyserver facing problem.

[AshranPewter 6]

Ya this would be nice, getting the logs to somewhere else to view becomes a bit of a chore whereas with docker I can just pipe them somewhere easily. Would be really nice to have this.

[matty87a 8]

Sorry for the necromancy - but i found this looking for the same thing.

Didnt find anything so modifed the container image to output more to stdout: 

https://github.com/matty87a/emby-stdout

 

You can control which logs make it to stdout with an env in your docker setup (default below)

EMBY_LOGS

=embyserver,ffmpeg,hardware

[seanbuff 1315]

FYI for anyone who uses the LSIO Emby Server docker package, you can achieve this by adding this Universal Docker Mod: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-mods/tree/universal-stdout-logs

Similar to @matty87asolution above, you can then direct specific logs to STDOUT and view them in apps like Dozzle, etc