moby--moby/docs/man/docker-events.1.md

% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals % William Henry % APRIL 2014

NAME

docker-events - Get real time events from the server

docker events --since=""|epoch-time

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

--since="" Show previously created events and then stream. This can be in either seconds since epoch, or date string.

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.io source material and internal work.