% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals
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% JUNE 2014
# NAME
docker-events - Get real time events from the server

# SYNOPSIS
**docker events**
[**--help**]
[**--since**[=*SINCE*]]
[**--until**[=*UNTIL*]]


# DESCRIPTION
Get event information from the Docker daemon. Information can include historical
information and real-time information.

Docker containers will report the following events:

    create, destroy, die, export, kill, pause, restart, start, stop, unpause

and Docker images will report:

    untag, delete

# OPTIONS
**--help**
  Print usage statement

**--since**=""
   Show all events created since timestamp

**--until**=""
   Stream events until this timestamp

# EXAMPLES

## Listening for Docker events

After running docker events a container 786d698004576 is started and stopped
(The container name has been shortened in the output below):

    # docker events
    [2014-04-12 18:23:04 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start
    [2014-04-12 18:23:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die
    [2014-04-12 18:23:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop

## Listening for events since a given date
Again the output container IDs have been shortened for the purposes of this document:

    # docker events --since '2014-04-12'
    [2014-04-12 18:11:28 -0400 EDT] c655dbf640dc: (from whenry/testimage:latest) create
    [2014-04-12 18:11:28 -0400 EDT] c655dbf640dc: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start
    [2014-04-12 18:14:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) create
    [2014-04-12 18:14:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start
    [2014-04-12 18:22:44 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die
    [2014-04-12 18:22:44 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop
    [2014-04-12 18:23:04 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start
    [2014-04-12 18:23:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die
    [2014-04-12 18:23:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop

# HISTORY
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>