This isn't an exhaustive list of solutions, but hopefully it's enough to point you towards a solution.The Trivial File Transfer Protocol ( TFTP) is an extremely simple protocol most often used for network booting strategies, such as PXE and flashing OpenWrt images unto consumer routers. then you will see logs on your container's console, where they will also be collected by Docker and made available via docker logs. If you modify the above command to have busybox syslogd write to stdout, like this. Instead of writing logs to a file, you could redirect them to the container's stdout. In this case, the logs would be visible in /var/log/messages inside the container. For example, your CMD might look like: CMD For example, you could install busybox and then run busybox syslogd before you start the tftpd service. You can run a minimal syslog service in the container and it log to a file. files (final destination dependent on your syslog configuration, but generally something like /var/log/messages). You can mount your host's /dev/log inside the container by adding -v /dev/log:/dev/log to your docker run command line this will make log messages from tftpd in the container appear in your host's /var/log/. If you want to see those logs when running tftpd inside a container, you will need to have something listen on /dev/log. Inside a typical container there is no logging daemon, so nothing is listening on /dev/log and your log messages simply disappear. Rather, it logs via syslog (it opens /dev/log and writes messsages there, which are collected by some sort of logging daemon and then dispatched to files based on its configuration). Tftpd does not write to log files on it's own.