github.com/stchris/docker@v1.4.2-0.20150106053530-1510a324dbd5/docs/man/docker-events.1.md (about) 1 % DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals 2 % Docker Community 3 % JUNE 2014 4 # NAME 5 docker-events - Get real time events from the server 6 7 # SYNOPSIS 8 **docker events** 9 [**--since**[=*SINCE*]] 10 [**--until**[=*UNTIL*]] 11 12 13 # DESCRIPTION 14 Get event information from the Docker daemon. Information can include historical 15 information and real-time information. 16 17 Docker containers will report the following events: 18 19 create, destroy, die, export, kill, pause, restart, start, stop, unpause 20 21 and Docker images will report: 22 23 untag, delete 24 25 # OPTIONS 26 **--since**="" 27 Show all events created since timestamp 28 29 **--until**="" 30 Stream events until this timestamp 31 32 # EXAMPLES 33 34 ## Listening for Docker events 35 36 After running docker events a container 786d698004576 is started and stopped 37 (The container name has been shortened in the output below): 38 39 # docker events 40 [2014-04-12 18:23:04 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start 41 [2014-04-12 18:23:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die 42 [2014-04-12 18:23:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop 43 44 ## Listening for events since a given date 45 Again the output container IDs have been shortened for the purposes of this document: 46 47 # docker events --since '2014-04-12' 48 [2014-04-12 18:11:28 -0400 EDT] c655dbf640dc: (from whenry/testimage:latest) create 49 [2014-04-12 18:11:28 -0400 EDT] c655dbf640dc: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start 50 [2014-04-12 18:14:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) create 51 [2014-04-12 18:14:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start 52 [2014-04-12 18:22:44 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die 53 [2014-04-12 18:22:44 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop 54 [2014-04-12 18:23:04 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start 55 [2014-04-12 18:23:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die 56 [2014-04-12 18:23:13 -0400 EDT] 786d69800457: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop 57 58 # HISTORY 59 April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) 60 based on docker.com source material and internal work. 61 June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au>