DescribeContainerLog - Elastic Container Instance - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Queries the logs of a container in an elastic container instance.

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
eci:DescribeContainerLog	READ	containergroup acs:eci:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:containergroup/{#containergroupId}	eci:tag	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
RegionId	string	Yes	The region ID of the elastic container instance.	cn-hangzhou
ContainerGroupId	string	Yes	The instance ID.	eci-uf6fonnghi50v6nq****
ContainerName	string	Yes	The name of the container.	nginx
StartTime	string	No	The beginning of the time range to query. Specify the time in the RFC 3339 standard. The time must be in UTC.	2018-08-02T15:00:00Z
Tail	integer	No	The number of log entries that you want to query. Default value: 500. Maximum value: 2000. A maximum of 1 MB of logs can be returned.	500
LastTime	boolean	No	Specifies whether to query the logs of the previous container if the container exits and restarts. Valid values: true false Default value: false.	false
SinceSeconds	integer	No	A relative time in seconds before the current time from which to show logs. Examples: 10, 20, and 30.	10
LimitBytes	long	No	The limit on the total size of logs. Unit: bytes. Valid values: 1 to 1048576(1 MB).	123798
Timestamps	boolean	No	Specifies whether to return the timestamps of logs. Valid values: true false Default value: false.	false

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The request ID.	CA850ADA-**-4AC8-**-5B5990EAB7D0
ContainerName	string	The container name.	nginx
Content	string	The content of the log.	{}

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "CA850ADA-****-4AC8-****-5B5990EAB7D0",
  "ContainerName": "nginx",
  "Content": "{}"
}

Error codes

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

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