Is there a way to check stack deployment logs while deploying?

[wsw70]

I have a specific stack that takes an awful amount of time to be deployed. The others are reasonably quick and this one is not particularly complicated so I do not know why the lag.

Is there a way to check deployment logs when the deployment happens (some kind of tail -f)?

[Nick-Portainer]

Hey @wsw70, when it comes to logging you will be able to check the logs on the specific container within the stack but not the stack itself. So if you click your stack, then scroll down to containers and under quick actions you will see the logs icon, click that and you will see the logs.

What type of stack are you attempting to deploy?

Screenshot for example

[wsw70]

Thanks for the follow-up - I know about container logs but they do not cover the deployment process and are only available once the deployment is done.
What I needed were the deployment logs - the ones where you see how docker compose is dealing with all the components of the configuration file (pull of images, ...). This is the only way to understand why a deployment is slow.

My stack is a fairly basic one with a few services, some dependencies and that's all. I do not need help with the stack itself but just with the troubleshooting via live logs of the deployment.

[Nick-Portainer]

Hey, Yeah I completely understand. You are after the equivalent of docker compose logs within Portainer, yeah? I'll raise this for discussion with the team

internal: PCT-445

[luisliz]

I came to precisely find this and I was thinking of trying to do it myself. I'll give it a try.

[wsw70]

You are after the equivalent of docker compose logs within Portainer, yeah?

Yes, and also the equivalent of docker compose up where the logs are visible interactively. But if they are timestamped, a post-mortem review will be fine as well (the timestamps would allow to understand where the bottleneck was, not to mention other possible useful messages)

[Nick-Portainer]

This has been raised as a feature request internally. There is no ETA on the release of this feature at this stage.