% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals % Docker Community % JUNE 2014
docker-events - Get real time events from the server
docker events [--help] [-f|--filter[=[]]] [--since[=SINCE]] [--until[=UNTIL]]
Get event information from the Docker daemon. Information can include historical information and real-time information.
Docker containers will report the following events:
attach, commit, copy, create, destroy, die, exec_create, exec_start, export, kill, oom, pause, rename, resize, restart, start, stop, top, unpause
and Docker images will report:
delete, import, pull, push, tag, untag
--help Print usage statement
-f, --filter=[] Provide filter values (i.e., ‘event=stop’)
--since="" Show all events created since timestamp
--until="" Stream events until this timestamp
You can specify --since
and --until
parameters as an RFC 3339 date, a UNIX timestamp, or a Go duration string (e.g. 1m30s
, 3h
). Docker computes the date relative to the client machine’s time.
After running docker events a container 786d698004576 is started and stopped (The container name has been shortened in the output below):
# docker events 2015-01-28T20:21:31.000000000-08:00 59211849bc10: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start 2015-01-28T20:21:31.000000000-08:00 59211849bc10: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die 2015-01-28T20:21:32.000000000-08:00 59211849bc10: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop
Again the output container IDs have been shortened for the purposes of this document:
# docker events --since '2015-01-28' 2015-01-28T20:25:38.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) create 2015-01-28T20:25:38.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start 2015-01-28T20:25:39.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) create 2015-01-28T20:25:39.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start 2015-01-28T20:25:40.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die 2015-01-28T20:25:42.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop 2015-01-28T20:25:45.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start 2015-01-28T20:25:45.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die 2015-01-28T20:25:46.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop
The following example outputs all events that were generated in the last 3 minutes, relative to the current time on the client machine:
# docker events --since '3m' 2015-05-12T11:51:30.999999999Z07:00 4386fb97867d: (from ubuntu-1:14.04) die 2015-05-12T15:52:12.999999999Z07:00 4 4386fb97867d: (from ubuntu-1:14.04) stop 2015-05-12T15:53:45.999999999Z07:00 7805c1d35632: (from redis:2.8) die 2015-05-12T15:54:03.999999999Z07:00 7805c1d35632: (from redis:2.8) stop
If you do not provide the --since option, the command returns only new and/or live events.
April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) based on docker.com source material and internal work. June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit SvenDowideit@home.org.au June 2015, updated by Brian Goff cpuguy83@gmail.com