# Configure logging drivers — Configure the default logging driver

> To configure the Docker daemon to default to a specific logging driver, set the value of log-driver to the name of the logging driver in the daemon.json configuration file.

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To configure the Docker daemon to default to a specific logging driver, set the value of log-driver to the name of the logging driver in the daemon.json configuration file. Refer to the "daemon configuration file" section in the dockerd reference manual for details.

The default logging driver is json-file. The following example sets the default logging driver to the local log driver

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```json
{
  "log-driver": "local"
}
```

If the logging driver has configurable options, you can set them in the daemon.json file as a JSON object with the key log-opts. The following example sets four configurable options on the json-file logging driver

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```json
{
  "log-driver": "json-file",
  "log-opts": {
    "max-size": "10m",
    "max-file": "3",
    "labels": "production_status",
    "env": "os,customer"
  }
}
```

Restart Docker for the changes to take effect for newly created containers. Existing containers don't use the new logging configuration automatically.

&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; &gt; log-opts configuration options in the daemon.json configuration file must &gt; be provided as strings. Boolean and numeric values (such as the value for &gt; max-file in the example above) must therefore be enclosed in quotes (").

If you don't specify a logging driver, the default is json-file. To find the current default logging driver for the Docker daemon, run docker info and search for Logging Driver. You can use the following command on Linux, macOS, or PowerShell on Windows

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker info --format '{{.LoggingDriver}}'

json-file
```

&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; &gt; Changing the default logging driver or logging driver options in the daemon &gt; configuration only affects containers that are created after the configuration &gt; is changed. Existing containers retain the logging driver options that were &gt; used when they were created. To update the logging driver for a container, the &gt; container has to be re-created with the desired options. &gt; Refer to the configure the logging driver for a container &gt; section below to learn how to find the logging-driver configuration of a &gt; container.

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