# Labels not being picked up in the docker compose **URL:** \ **Category:** Traefik v2\ **Tags:** middleware, docker\ **Created:** [December 21, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/labels-not-being-picked-up-in-the-docker-compose/29494 "2025-12-21T22:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kaleorchard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/kaleorchard/32/10988_2.png) [@kaleorchard](https://community.traefik.io/u/kaleorchard)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/labels-not-being-picked-up-in-the-docker-compose/29494/1 "2025-12-21T22:00:48Z")
Hi All, Has anyone come across the follow. This setup has been running for well over a year so not I sure what changed. I created a mediainfo docker as part of my debug and what I found is the rules, as shown inside of the docker-compose.yml, do not work inside of this YAML. In fact I can not access the Traefik dashboard either at traefik.DASHBOARD.XXX. Local access to the Traefik dashboard at 8080 works fine. ```yaml traefik: image: traefik:2.11.33 container_name: traefik networks: rev_proxy: local_net: security_opt: - no-new-privileges:true secrets: - basic_auth_credentials - cf_dns_api_token environment: DOCKER_HOST: dockersocket TZ: $TZ volumes: - $DOCKERDIR/appdata/traefik/acme/acme.json:/acme.json - $DOCKERDIR/appdata/traefik/rules:/rules - $DOCKERDIR/appdata/traefik/logs:/logs - $DOCKERDIR/appdata/traefik/:/etc/traefik ports: - 80:80 - 443:443 # - 853:853 - 8080:8080 # Dashboard port restart: unless-stopped depends_on: - dockersocket labels: traefik.enable: true traefik.http.routers.traefik-rtr.entryPoints: websecure traefik.http.routers.traefik-rtr.rule: Host(`traefik.$DOMAINNAME`) traefik.http.routers.traefik-rtr.service: api@internal traefik.http.routers.traefik-rtr.middlewares: chain-oauth@file # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- mediainfo: image: jlesage/mediainfo container_name: mediainfo networks: rev_proxy: local_net: ports: - "5800:5800" volumes: - "$DOCKERDIR/services/mediainfo/config:/config:rw" - "$DOCKERDIR/services/mediainfo/storage:/storage:ro" restart: unless-stopped labels: traefik.enable: true traefik.http.routers.mediainfo-rtr.tls: true traefik.http.routers.mediainfo-rtr.entryPoints: websecure traefik.http.routers.mediainfo-rtr.rule: Host(`mediainfo.$DOMAINNAME`) traefik.http.routers.mediainfo-rtr.middlewares: chain-oauth@file traefik.http.routers.mediainfo-rtr.service: mediainfo-svc traefik.http.services.mediainfo-svc.loadbalancer.server.port: 5800 ``` BUT, if I comment out the labels in the docker-compose.yml and create a file called app-mediainfo-auth.yml with the following rules (below) and put in the Traefik rules folders then I can access mediainfo.DOMAINNAME.XXX. In the past this all worked (both ways). ```yaml http: routers: mediainfo-rtr: service: mediainfo-svc rule: "Host(`mediainfo.DOMAINNAME.XXX`)" entryPoints: - websecure middlewares: - chain-oauth tls: certResolver: cloudflare services: mediainfo-svc: loadBalancer: servers: - url: "http://192.168.1.11:5800" ``` I have rolled back Traefik to 2.11.25 (which is well before this issue) and that did not fix things. I had updated my machine and did a reboot so maybe docker got rebuilt but not sure how that impacts just Traefik labels. I have spent a number of hours to get to this point but I am a bit at a loss on what to look at next. ---
**Author:** ![bluepuma77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@bluepuma77](https://community.traefik.io/u/bluepuma77)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/labels-not-being-picked-up-in-the-docker-compose/29494/2 "2025-12-21T22:19:05Z")
Share your Traefik static config (`entrypoints`, `providers`). Note that dynamic config in file has `certResolver`, the config in labels does not. ---
**Author:** ![kaleorchard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/kaleorchard/32/10988_2.png) [@kaleorchard](https://community.traefik.io/u/kaleorchard)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 10:34pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/labels-not-being-picked-up-in-the-docker-compose/29494/3 "2025-12-21T22:34:44Z")
Duh, sorry….I was at this for a quite some time all day and totally forgot the traefik.yml. Thanks for the reply. ```yaml global: checkNewVersion: true sendAnonymousUsage: false serversTransport: insecureSkipVerify: true entryPoints: web: address: :80 forwardedHeaders: trustedIPs: &trustedIps - 173.245.48.0/20 - 103.21.244.0/22 - 103.22.200.0/22 - 103.31.4.0/22 - 141.101.64.0/18 - 108.162.192.0/18 - 190.93.240.0/20 - 188.114.96.0/20 - 197.234.240.0/22 - 198.41.128.0/17 - 162.158.0.0/15 - 104.16.0.0/12 - 172.64.0.0/13 - 131.0.72.0/22 - 2400:cb00::/32 - 2606:4700::/32 - 2803:f800::/32 - 2405:b500::/32 - 2405:8100::/32 - 2a06:98c0::/29 - 2c0f:f248::/32 http: redirections: entryPoint: to: websecure scheme: https websecure: address: :443 forwardedHeaders: trustedIPs: *trustedIps http: tls: certResolver: cloudflare domains: - main: DOMAINNAME.XXX sans: - '*.DOMAINNAME.XXX' providers: providersThrottleDuration: 10s docker: watch: true endpoint: "tcp://dockersocket:2375" exposedByDefault: false network: rev_proxy file: directory: /rules watch: true api: dashboard: true insecure: true debug: true # Traefik Log Level INFO|DEBUG|ERROR|FATAL|PANIC|WARN log: level: DEBUG filePath: "/logs/traefik.log" accessLog: filePath: "/logs/access.log" bufferingSize: 100 certificatesResolvers: cloudflare: acme: email: storage: acme.json dnsChallenge: provider: cloudflare resolvers: - "1.1.1.1:53" - "1.0.0.1:53" ``` ---
**Author:** ![bluepuma77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@bluepuma77](https://community.traefik.io/u/bluepuma77)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/labels-not-being-picked-up-in-the-docker-compose/29494/4 "2025-12-22T07:52:31Z")
Did you check your debug log? Docker recently changed its API version requirement and the whole eco-system fell apart. Make sure to use the latest Traefik and Docker socket proxy images.