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## 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

    2015-01-28T20:21:31.000000000-08:00 59211849bc10: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start
    2015-01-28T20:21:31.000000000-08:00 59211849bc10: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die
    2015-01-28T20:21:32.000000000-08:00 59211849bc10: (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 '2015-01-28'

    2015-01-28T20:25:38.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) create
    2015-01-28T20:25:38.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start
    2015-01-28T20:25:39.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) create
    2015-01-28T20:25:39.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start
    2015-01-28T20:25:40.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die
    2015-01-28T20:25:42.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop
    2015-01-28T20:25:45.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) start
    2015-01-28T20:25:45.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) die
    2015-01-28T20:25:46.000000000-08:00 c21f6c22ba27: (from whenry/testimage:latest) stop

The following example outputs all events that were generated in the last 3 minutes,
relative to the current time on the client machine:

    # docker events --since '3m'
    2015-05-12T11:51:30.999999999Z07:00  4386fb97867d: (from ubuntu-1:14.04) die
    2015-05-12T15:52:12.999999999Z07:00  4386fb97867d: (from ubuntu-1:14.04) stop
    2015-05-12T15:53:45.999999999Z07:00  7805c1d35632: (from redis:2.8) die
    2015-05-12T15:54:03.999999999Z07:00  7805c1d35632: (from redis:2.8) stop

If you do not provide the --since option, the command returns only new and/or
live events.

### Format

If a format (`--format`) is specified, the given template will be executed
instead of the default format. Go's **text/template** package describes all the
details of the format.

    {% raw %}
    $ docker events --filter 'type=container' --format 'Type={{.Type}}  Status={{.Status}}  ID={{.ID}}'
    Type=container  Status=create  ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26
    Type=container  Status=attach  ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26
    Type=container  Status=start  ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26
    Type=container  Status=resize  ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26
    Type=container  Status=die  ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26
    Type=container  Status=destroy  ID=2ee349dac409e97974ce8d01b70d250b85e0ba8189299c126a87812311951e26
    {% endraw %}

If a format is set to `{% raw %}{{json .}}{% endraw %}`, the events are streamed as valid JSON
Lines. For information about JSON Lines, please refer to http://jsonlines.org/ .

    {% raw %}
    $ docker events --format '{{json .}}'
    {"status":"create","id":"196016a57679bf42424484918746a9474cd905dd993c4d0f4..
    {"status":"attach","id":"196016a57679bf42424484918746a9474cd905dd993c4d0f4..
    {"Type":"network","Action":"connect","Actor":{"ID":"1b50a5bf755f6021dfa78e..
    {"status":"start","id":"196016a57679bf42424484918746a9474cd905dd993c4d0f42..
    {"status":"resize","id":"196016a57679bf42424484918746a9474cd905dd993c4d0f4..
    {% endraw %}

### Filters

    $ docker events --filter 'event=stop'
    2014-05-10T17:42:14.999999999Z07:00 container stop 4386fb97867d (image=ubuntu-1:14.04)
    2014-09-03T17:42:14.999999999Z07:00 container stop 7805c1d35632 (image=redis:2.8)

    $ docker events --filter 'image=ubuntu-1:14.04'
    2014-05-10T17:42:14.999999999Z07:00 container start 4386fb97867d (image=ubuntu-1:14.04)
    2014-05-10T17:42:14.999999999Z07:00 container die 4386fb97867d (image=ubuntu-1:14.04)
    2014-05-10T17:42:14.999999999Z07:00 container stop 4386fb97867d (image=ubuntu-1:14.04)

    $ docker events --filter 'container=7805c1d35632'
    2014-05-10T17:42:14.999999999Z07:00 container die 7805c1d35632 (image=redis:2.8)
    2014-09-03T15:49:29.999999999Z07:00 container stop 7805c1d35632 (image= redis:2.8)

    $ docker events --filter 'container=7805c1d35632' --filter 'container=4386fb97867d'
    2014-09-03T15:49:29.999999999Z07:00 container die 4386fb97867d (image=ubuntu-1:14.04)
    2014-05-10T17:42:14.999999999Z07:00 container stop 4386fb97867d (image=ubuntu-1:14.04)
    2014-05-10T17:42:14.999999999Z07:00 container die 7805c1d35632 (image=redis:2.8)
    2014-09-03T15:49:29.999999999Z07:00 container stop 7805c1d35632 (image=redis:2.8)

    $ docker events --filter 'container=7805c1d35632' --filter 'event=stop'
    2014-09-03T15:49:29.999999999Z07:00 container stop 7805c1d35632 (image=redis:2.8)

    $ docker events --filter 'type=volume'
    2015-12-23T21:05:28.136212689Z volume create test-event-volume-local (driver=local)
    2015-12-23T21:05:28.383462717Z volume mount test-event-volume-local (read/write=true, container=562fe10671e9273da25eed36cdce26159085ac7ee6707105fd534866340a5025, destination=/foo, driver=local, propagation=rprivate)
    2015-12-23T21:05:28.650314265Z volume unmount test-event-volume-local (container=562fe10671e9273da25eed36cdce26159085ac7ee6707105fd534866340a5025, driver=local)
    2015-12-23T21:05:28.716218405Z volume destroy test-event-volume-local (driver=local)

    $ docker events --filter 'type=network'
    2015-12-23T21:38:24.705709133Z network create 8b111217944ba0ba844a65b13efcd57dc494932ee2527577758f939315ba2c5b (name=test-event-network-local, type=bridge)
    2015-12-23T21:38:25.119625123Z network connect 8b111217944ba0ba844a65b13efcd57dc494932ee2527577758f939315ba2c5b (name=test-event-network-local, container=b4be644031a3d90b400f88ab3d4bdf4dc23adb250e696b6328b85441abe2c54e, type=bridge)

    $ docker events --filter 'type=plugin' (experimental)
    2016-07-25T17:30:14.825557616Z plugin pull ec7b87f2ce84330fe076e666f17dfc049d2d7ae0b8190763de94e1f2d105993f (name=tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin:latest)
    2016-07-25T17:30:14.888127370Z plugin enable ec7b87f2ce84330fe076e666f17dfc049d2d7ae0b8190763de94e1f2d105993f (name=tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin:latest)