Dozzle: Real-Time Log Viewer for Docker Containers
Date: 2026-07-23 Status: deployed Scope: personal dev notes, sanitized Why I Wanted Dozzle I maintain a small k0s Kubernetes cluster for my personal services. kubectl logs works fine, but after a while it becomes tiring to keep jumping between namespaces, deployments, replicas, and pod names. I wanted a lightweight web UI where I could open one page, search for a workload, and read logs without turning every debugging session into a command-line treasure hunt. Dozzle looked like a good fit because it can run directly in Kubernetes mode. That means I did not need to mount the Docker socket or run a node-level log agent. The goal was simple: view pod logs from the cluster keep access read-only expose it through the Traefik ingress controller I already had route traffic through my existing Cloudflare Tunnel protect it with authentication ...