diff --git a/homelab/server/config/monitoring/docker-compose.yml b/homelab/server/config/monitoring/docker-compose.yml
index 95ddc49c..784bfe2b 100644
--- a/homelab/server/config/monitoring/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/homelab/server/config/monitoring/docker-compose.yml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ services:
         networks:
             - monitoring
         volumes:
-            - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
+            - /var/lib/docker/containers:/var/lib/docker/containers
             - ${DOCKER_DATA}/promtail:/etc/promtail
             - ./promtail-config.yml:/etc/promtail/promtail-config.yml # not sure if this works. If not, just edit the config within the data volume
         restart: unless-stopped
diff --git a/homelab/server/config/monitoring/promtail-config.yml b/homelab/server/config/monitoring/promtail-config.yml
index 3a8d8c29..7be0e3cc 100644
--- a/homelab/server/config/monitoring/promtail-config.yml
+++ b/homelab/server/config/monitoring/promtail-config.yml
@@ -10,16 +10,24 @@ clients:
 
 scrape_configs:
   - job_name: docker
-    docker_sd_configs:
-      - host: unix:///var/run/docker.sock
-        refresh_interval: 5s
-        filters:
-          - name: name
-            values: [flog] 
-    relabel_configs:
-      - source_labels: ['__meta_docker_container_name']
-        regex: '/(.*)'
-        target_label: 'container'
+    pipeline_stages:
+      - docker: {}
+    static_configs:
+      - labels:
+          job: docker
+          __path__: /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log
+
+  # - job_name: docker
+  #   docker_sd_configs:
+  #     - host: unix:///var/run/docker.sock
+  #       refresh_interval: 5s
+  #       filters:
+  #         - name: name
+  #           values: [flog] 
+  #   relabel_configs:
+  #     - source_labels: ['__meta_docker_container_name']
+  #       regex: '/(.*)'
+  #       target_label: 'container'
 
 # local machine logs
 #