Docker stats Command
docker stats: Displays resource usage statistics for containers, including CPU, memory, network I/O, etc.
Syntax
docker stats [OPTIONS] [CONTAINER...]
OPTIONS Description:
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--all, -a: Show all containers, including those not running.
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--format: Specify a template file for the output.
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--no-stream: Exit after displaying the initial status, without real-time updates.
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--no-trunc: Do not truncate the output.
Example
List information for all running containers.
tutorialpro@tutorialpro:~$ docker stats
CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS
b95a83497c91 awesome_brattain 0.28% 5.629MiB / 1.952GiB 0.28% 916B / 0B 147kB / 0B 9
67b2525d8ad1 foobar 0.00% 1.727MiB / 1.952GiB 0.09% 2.48kB / 0B 4.11MB / 0B 2
e5c383697914 test-1951.1.kay7x1lh1twk9c0oig50sd5tr 0.00% 196KiB / 1.952GiB 0.01% 71.2kB / 0B 770kB / 0B 1
4bda148efbc0 random.1.vnc8on831idyr42slu578u3cr 0.00% 1.672MiB / 1.952GiB 0.08% 110kB / 0B 578kB / 0B 2
Output details:
CONTAINER ID and NAME: Container ID and name.
CPU % and MEM %: CPU and memory usage percentages by the container.
MEM USAGE / LIMIT: Total memory currently used by the container and the total allowed memory.
NET I/O: Amount of data the container has sent and received over its network interface.
BLOCK I/O: Amount of data the container has read from and written to block devices on the host.
PIDs: Number of processes or threads created by the container.
Display information based on container ID or name:
tutorialpro@tutorialpro:~$ docker stats awesome_brattain 67b2525d8ad1
CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS
b95a83497c91 awesome_brattain 0.28% 5.629MiB / 1.952GiB 0.28% 916B / 0B 147kB / 0B 9
67b2525d8ad1 foobar 0.00% 1.727MiB / 1.952GiB 0.09% 2.48kB / 0B 4.11MB / 0B 2
Output in JSON format:
tutorialpro@tutorialpro:~$ docker stats nginx --no-stream --format "{{ json . }}"
{"BlockIO":"0B / 13.3kB","CPUPerc":"0.03%","Container":"nginx","ID":"ed37317fbf42","MemPerc":"0.24%","MemUsage":"2.352MiB / 982.5MiB","Name":"nginx","NetIO":"539kB / 606kB","PIDs":"2"}
Output specified information:
tutorialpro@tutorialpro:~$ docker stats --all --format "table {{.Container}}\t{{.CPUPerc}}\t{{.MemUsage}}" fervent_panini 5acfcb1b4fd1 drunk_visvesvaraya big_heisenberg
{"BlockIO":"0B / 13.3kB","CPUPerc":"0.03%","Container":"nginx","ID":"ed37317fbf42","MemPerc":"0.24%","MemUsage":"2.352MiB / 982.5MiB","Name":"nginx","NetIO":"539kB / 606kB","PIDs":"2"}
CONTAINER CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT
fervent_panini 0.00% 56KiB / 15.57GiB
5acfcb1b4fd1 0.07% 32.86MiB / 15.57GiB
drunk_visvesvaraya 0.00% 0B / 0B
big_heisenberg 0.00% 0B / 0B