diff --git a/homelab/server/config/monitoring/promtail-config.yml b/homelab/server/config/monitoring/promtail-config.yml
index 36eeffd8..e530685f 100644
--- a/homelab/server/config/monitoring/promtail-config.yml
+++ b/homelab/server/config/monitoring/promtail-config.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,34 @@ scrape_configs:
         regex: '/(.*)'
         target_label: 'container'
 
+# per: https://gist.github.com/ruanbekker/c6fa9bc6882e6f324b4319c5e3622460?permalink_comment_id=3764474
+  - job_name: containers
+    entry_parser: raw
+  static_configs:
+  - targets:
+      - localhost
+    labels:
+      job: containerlogs
+      __path__: /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*log
+  pipeline_stages:
+  - json:
+      expressions:
+        stream: stream
+        attrs: attrs
+        tag: attrs.tag
+  - regex:
+      expression: (?P<image_name>(?:[^|]*[^|])).(?P<container_name>(?:[^|]*[^|])).(?P<image_id>(?:[^|]*[^|])).(?P<container_id>(?:[^|]*[^|]))
+      source: "tag"
+  - labels:
+      tag:
+      stream:
+      image_name:
+      container_name:
+      image_id:
+      container_id:
+
+
+
 # local machine logs
 #
 #- job_name: local