Usage: docker events [OPTIONS] Get real time events from the server Options: -f, --filter value Filter output based on conditions provided (default []) --format string Format the output using the given Go template --help Print usage --since string Show all events created since timestamp --until string Stream events until this timestamp
Docker containers report the following events:
attach, commit, copy, create, destroy, detach, die, exec_create, exec_detach, exec_start, export, health_status, kill, oom, pause, rename, resize, restart, start, stop, top, unpause, update
Docker images report the following events:
delete, import, load, pull, push, save, tag, untag
Docker plugins report the following events:
install, enable, disable, remove
Docker volumes report the following events:
create, mount, unmount, destroy
Docker networks report the following events:
create, connect, disconnect, destroy
Docker daemon reports the following events:
reload
The --since
and --until
parameters can be Unix timestamps, date formatted timestamps, or Go duration strings (e.g. 10m
, 1h30m
) computed relative to the client machine’s time. If you do not provide the --since
option, the command returns only new and/or live events. Supported formats for date formatted time stamps include RFC3339Nano, RFC3339, 2006-01-02T15:04:05
, 2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999
, 2006-01-02Z07:00
, and 2006-01-02
. The local timezone on the client will be used if you do not provide either a Z
or a +-00:00
timezone offset at the end of the timestamp. When providing Unix timestamps enter seconds[.nanoseconds], where seconds is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap seconds (aka Unix epoch or Unix time), and the optional .nanoseconds field is a fraction of a second no more than nine digits long.
The filtering flag (-f
or --filter
) format is of “key=value”. If you would like to use multiple filters, pass multiple flags (e.g., --filter "foo=bar" --filter "bif=baz"
)
Using the same filter multiple times will be handled as a OR; for example --filter container=588a23dac085 --filter container=a8f7720b8c22
will display events for container 588a23dac085 OR container a8f7720b8c22
Using multiple filters will be handled as a AND; for example --filter container=588a23dac085 --filter event=start
will display events for container container 588a23dac085 AND the event type is start
The currently supported filters are:
container=<name or id>
)daemon=<name or id>
)event=<event action>
)image=<tag or id>
)label=<key>
or label=<key>=<value>
)network=<name or id>
)plugin=<name or id>
)type=<container or image or volume or network or daemon>
)volume=<name or id>
)If a format (--format
) is specified, the given template will be executed instead of the default format. Go's text/template package describes all the details of the format.
If a format is set to {{json .}}
, the events are streamed as valid JSON Lines. For information about JSON Lines, please refer to http://jsonlines.org/ .
You'll need two shells for this example.
Shell 1: Listening for events:
$ docker events
Shell 2: Start and Stop containers:
$ docker create --name test alpine:latest top $ docker start test $ docker stop test
Shell 1: (Again .. now showing events):
2017-01-05T00:35:58.859401177+08:00 container create 0fdb48addc82871eb34eb23a847cfd033dedd1a0a37bef2e6d9eb3870fc7ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.703631903+08:00 network connect e2e1f5ceda09d4300f3a846f0acfaa9a8bb0d89e775eb744c5acecd60e0529e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.795031609+08:00 container start 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.830268747+08:00 container kill 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test, signal=15) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.840186338+08:00 container die 0fdb...ff37 (exitCode=143, image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.880113663+08:00 network disconnect e2e...29e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.890214053+08:00 container stop 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test)
Show events in the past from a specified time:
$ docker events --since 1483283804 2017-01-05T00:35:41.241772953+08:00 volume create testVol (driver=local) 2017-01-05T00:35:58.859401177+08:00 container create d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.703631903+08:00 network connect e2e1...29e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.795031609+08:00 container start 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.830268747+08:00 container kill 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test, signal=15) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.840186338+08:00 container die 0fdb...ff37 (exitCode=143, image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.880113663+08:00 network disconnect e2e...29e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.890214053+08:00 container stop 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) $ docker events --since '2017-01-05' 2017-01-05T00:35:41.241772953+08:00 volume create testVol (driver=local) 2017-01-05T00:35:58.859401177+08:00 container create d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.703631903+08:00 network connect e2e1...29e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.795031609+08:00 container start 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.830268747+08:00 container kill 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test, signal=15) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.840186338+08:00 container die 0fdb...ff37 (exitCode=143, image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.880113663+08:00 network disconnect e2e...29e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.890214053+08:00 container stop 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) $ docker events --since '2013-09-03T15:49:29' 2017-01-05T00:35:41.241772953+08:00 volume create testVol (driver=local) 2017-01-05T00:35:58.859401177+08:00 container create d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.703631903+08:00 network connect e2e1...29e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.795031609+08:00 container start 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.830268747+08:00 container kill 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test, signal=15) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.840186338+08:00 container die 0fdb...ff37 (exitCode=143, image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.880113663+08:00 network disconnect e2e...29e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.890214053+08:00 container stop 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test)
This example outputs all events that were generated in the last 3 minutes, relative to the current time on the client machine:
$ docker events --since '10m' 2017-01-05T00:35:41.241772953+08:00 volume create testVol (driver=local) 2017-01-05T00:35:58.859401177+08:00 container create d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.703631903+08:00 network connect e2e1...29e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:04.795031609+08:00 container start 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.830268747+08:00 container kill 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test, signal=15) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.840186338+08:00 container die 0fdb...ff37 (exitCode=143, image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.880113663+08:00 network disconnect e2e...29e2 (container=0fdb...ff37, name=bridge, type=bridge) 2017-01-05T00:36:09.890214053+08:00 container stop 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test)
Filter events:
$ docker events --filter 'event=stop' 2017-01-05T00:40:22.880175420+08:00 container stop 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:41:17.888104182+08:00 container stop 2a8f...4e78 (image=alpine, name=kickass_brattain) $ docker events --filter 'image=alpine' 2017-01-05T00:41:55.784240236+08:00 container create d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine, name=happy_meitner) 2017-01-05T00:41:55.913156783+08:00 container start d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine, name=happy_meitner) 2017-01-05T00:42:01.106875249+08:00 container kill d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine, name=happy_meitner, signal=15) 2017-01-05T00:42:11.111934041+08:00 container kill d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine, name=happy_meitner, signal=9) 2017-01-05T00:42:11.119578204+08:00 container die d9cd...4d70 (exitCode=137, image=alpine, name=happy_meitner) 2017-01-05T00:42:11.173276611+08:00 container stop d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine, name=happy_meitner) $ docker events --filter 'container=test' 2017-01-05T00:43:00.139719934+08:00 container start 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:43:09.259951086+08:00 container kill 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test, signal=15) 2017-01-05T00:43:09.270102715+08:00 container die 0fdb...ff37 (exitCode=143, image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:43:09.312556440+08:00 container stop 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) $ docker events --filter 'container=test' --filter 'container=d9cdb1525ea8' 2017-01-05T00:44:11.517071981+08:00 container start 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:44:17.685870901+08:00 container start d9cd...4d70 (image=alpine, name=happy_meitner) 2017-01-05T00:44:29.757658470+08:00 container kill 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test, signal=9) 2017-01-05T00:44:29.767718510+08:00 container die 0fdb...ff37 (exitCode=137, image=alpine:latest, name=test) 2017-01-05T00:44:29.815798344+08:00 container destroy 0fdb...ff37 (image=alpine:latest, name=test) $ docker events --filter 'container=test' --filter 'event=stop' 2017-01-05T00:46:13.664099505+08:00 container stop a9d1...e130 (image=alpine, name=test) $ docker events --filter 'type=volume' 2015-12-23T21:05:28.136212689Z volume create test-event-volume-local (driver=local) 2015-12-23T21:05:28.383462717Z volume mount test-event-volume-local (read/write=true, container=562f...5025, destination=/foo, driver=local, propagation=rprivate) 2015-12-23T21:05:28.650314265Z volume unmount test-event-volume-local (container=562f...5025, driver=local) 2015-12-23T21:05:28.716218405Z volume destroy test-event-volume-local (driver=local) $ docker events --filter 'type=network' 2015-12-23T21:38:24.705709133Z network create 8b11...2c5b (name=test-event-network-local, type=bridge) 2015-12-23T21:38:25.119625123Z network connect 8b11...2c5b (name=test-event-network-local, container=b4be...c54e, type=bridge) $ docker events --filter 'type=plugin' (experimental) 2016-07-25T17:30:14.825557616Z plugin pull ec7b...993f (name=tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin:latest) 2016-07-25T17:30:14.888127370Z plugin enable ec7b...993f (name=tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin:latest)
Format:
$ docker events --filter 'type=container' --format 'Type={{.Type}} Status={{.Status}} ID={{.ID}}' Type=container Status=create ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26 Type=container Status=attach ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26 Type=container Status=start ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26 Type=container Status=resize ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26 Type=container Status=die ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26 Type=container Status=destroy ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26
Format (as JSON Lines):
$ docker events --format '{{json .}}' {"status":"create","id":"196016a57679bf42424484918746a9474cd905dd993c4d0f4.. {"status":"attach","id":"196016a57679bf42424484918746a9474cd905dd993c4d0f4.. {"Type":"network","Action":"connect","Actor":{"ID":"1b50a5bf755f6021dfa78e.. {"status":"start","id":"196016a57679bf42424484918746a9474cd905dd993c4d0f42.. {"status":"resize","id":"196016a57679bf42424484918746a9474cd905dd993c4d0f4..