diff --git a/internal/constant/compose.go b/internal/constant/compose.go
index 30992c4..3b47be9 100644
--- a/internal/constant/compose.go
+++ b/internal/constant/compose.go
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@ package constant
 
 const (
 	Compose        = "compose"
-	ComposeCommand = "docker-compose"
+	ComposeCommand = "docker compose"
 )
diff --git a/test/e2e/collect-expected.yaml b/test/e2e/collect-expected.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c99cbdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/collect-expected.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Licensed to Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor
+# license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright
+# ownership. Apache Software Foundation (ASF) licenses this file to you under
+# the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+collected: "true"
diff --git a/test/e2e/e2e.yaml b/test/e2e/e2e.yaml
index 23cb116..6bb2128 100644
--- a/test/e2e/e2e.yaml
+++ b/test/e2e/e2e.yaml
@@ -24,6 +24,17 @@ setup:
 cleanup:
   # always never success failure
   on: always
+  # Exercise the compose log collector in CI so a regression to Docker Compose v1 is
+  # caught: GitHub-hosted runners ship only Compose v2, so the collector must use
+  # `docker compose`. Auto-collect is off here; the verify case below invokes
+  # `e2e collect` explicitly and asserts a file was collected.
+  collect:
+    on: never
+    output-dir: /tmp/e2e-collect-check
+    items:
+      - service: httpbin
+        paths:
+          - /etc/hostname
 
 verify:
   # verify with retry strategy
@@ -56,3 +67,13 @@ verify:
       query: './bin/linux/e2e verify -c  ./test/e2e/concurrency/non-fail-fast/internal/verify.yaml --summary-only -o yaml'
       expected: ./concurrency/non-fail-fast/expected.yaml
 
+    # Guards the compose log collector against a regression to Docker Compose v1
+    # (which is absent on GitHub-hosted runners). Runs `e2e collect` against the
+    # already-running compose stack and asserts a container file was collected.
+    - name: compose log collector works on Docker Compose v2
+      query: |
+        rm -rf /tmp/e2e-collect-check
+        ./bin/linux/e2e collect -c ./test/e2e/e2e.yaml > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
+        if [ -s /tmp/e2e-collect-check/httpbin/etc/hostname ]; then echo 'collected: "true"'; else echo 'collected: "false"'; fi
+      expected: ./collect-expected.yaml
+