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docker-compose-events(1)

docker-compose-events1

Receive real time events from containers

Usage

docker compose events [OPTIONS] [SERVICE ...]

Overview

Stream container events for every container in the project.

With the --json flag, a json object is printed one per line with the format:

{
    "time": "2015-11-20T18:01:03.615550",
    "type": "container",
    "action": "create",
    "id": "213cf7...5fc39a",
    "service": "web",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "application_web_1",
      "image": "alpine:edge"
    }
}

The events that can be received using this can be seen here ⟨/reference/cli/docker/system/events/#object-types⟩.

Options

-h, --help[=false]
help for events

--json[=false]
Output events as a stream of json objects

Options inherited from parent commands

--dry-run[=false]
Execute command in dry run mode

From docker-compose 2.26.1-4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.