Docker Events

• "Actions Taken" Logs of Docker Engine and Swarm

  • e.g. "network create", "service update", "container start"

• docker events received SwarmKit events in 17.06

  • services/nodes/secrets/configs got create/update/remove

• Has searching (filtering) and formatting

• Limited to last 1000 Events (no logs are stored on disk)

• Two scopes, "local" and "swarm"

• Not the same as dockerd (journald) log, also not an error log

Examples

• Follow future events

  • docker events

• Return events from a date until now and future

  • docker events --since 2019-01-05

  • docker events --since 2019-01-05T12:30:00

• Return events from 30m ago until now and future

  • docker events --since 30m

  • docker events --since 2h10m

• Return last hour of events filtered by event name

  • docker events --since 1h --filter event=start

• Only return Swarm related events for networks

  • docker events --since 1h --filter scope=swarm --filter type=network

External links

• https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/events/