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podman-pod-top(1)() podman-pod-top(1)()

podman-pod-top - Display the running processes of containers in a pod

podman pod top [options] pod [format-descriptors]

Display the running processes of containers in a pod. The format-descriptors are ps (1) compatible AIX format descriptors but extended to print additional information, such as the seccomp mode or the effective capabilities of a given process. The descriptors can either be passed as separated arguments or as a single comma-separated argument. Note that you can specify options and/or additionally options of ps(1); in this case, Podman will fallback to executing ps with the specified arguments and options in the container.

--help, -h

Print usage statement

--latest, -l

Instead of providing the pod name or ID, use the last created pod.

The latest option is not supported on the remote client.

Please refer to podman-top(1) for a full list of available descriptors.

By default, podman-pod-top prints data similar to ps -ef:

$ podman pod top b031293491cc
USER   PID   PPID   %CPU    ELAPSED             TTY   TIME   COMMAND
root   1     0      0.000   2h5m38.737137571s   ?     0s     top
root   8     0      0.000   2h5m15.737228361s   ?     0s     top

The output can be controlled by specifying format descriptors as arguments after the pod:

$ podman pod top -l pid seccomp args %C
PID   SECCOMP   COMMAND   %CPU
1     filter    top       0.000
1     filter    /bin/sh   0.000

podman-pod(1), podman-top(1), ps(1), seccomp(2), proc(5), capabilities(7)

August 2018, Originally compiled by Peter Hunt pehunt@redhat.com ⟨mailto:pehunt@redhat.com⟩