# Configure logging drivers — Configure the logging driver for a container

> When you start a container, you can configure it to use a different logging driver than the Docker daemon's default, using the --log-driver flag.

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When you start a container, you can configure it to use a different logging driver than the Docker daemon's default, using the --log-driver flag. If the logging driver has configurable options, you can set them using one or more instances of the --log-opt = flag. Even if the container uses the default logging driver, it can use different configurable options.

The following example starts an Alpine container with the none logging driver.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker run -it --log-driver none alpine ash
```

To find the current logging driver for a running container, if the daemon is using the json-file logging driver, run the following docker inspect command, substituting the container name or ID for

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker inspect -f '{{.HostConfig.LogConfig.Type}}' &lt;CONTAINER&gt;

json-file
```

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