DockerContainer.log() times out after 300 seconds / 5 minutes of streaming

[sauladam]

Long story short

Streaming logs for a container works fine for exactly 5 minutes before the process times out. This seems to be an HTTP timeout, probably a default value in aiohttp.

• Expected behaviour: Stream logs until container goes away.
• Actual behaviour: Only streams for 5 minutes even though the container is still running.

How to reproduce

docker = Docker()
container = await docker.containers.get(container_id)
logs_stream = container.log(stdout=True, stderr=True, follow=True)

async for log in logs_stream:
    print(log)

Let it cook for 5 minutes.

Sidenote:

Subscribing to docker events works fine.

I also went sourcediving and found the logs property on the DockerContainer class which is a DockerLog instance.

I then tried to do the same as with docker events:

subscription = container.logs.subscribe()
asyncio.create_task(container.logs.run(timestamps=True))

while True:
    log = await subscription.get()

    if log is None:
        break
    print(log)

But this also times out after 5 minutes.

Your environment

Python 3.12.6 (inside Docker container from python:3.12-alpine3.19)
aiodocker==0.23.0
aiohttp==3.9.5 (clamped because of an issue with newer versions)

[toerb]

The timeout in question is the sock_read timeout in aiohttp.
It can be set via the session parameter while instantiating a new docker client:

client = aiodocker.Docker(
    session=aiohttp.ClientSession(
        connector=aiohttp.UnixConnector('/var/run/docker.sock'),
        timeout=aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=None, connect=30, sock_connect=30, sock_read=None)
    )
)

[sauladam]

@toerb My guy just stepping in and dropping the solution like a chad!

12 hours in and the logs keep coming - thanks a ton! 🫶

This seems like a solid default for handling streaming logs with UnixConnectors. From what I can tell, the timeout can be adjusted per request, so setting it for the log requests makes sense. Would you mind if I opened a PR for this, giving you full credit for your solution?

[toerb]

Would you mind if I opened a PR for this, giving you full credit for your solution?

No, not at all! I am happy my comment was of help ;)