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podman-events - Monitor Podman events

podman events [options]

Monitor and print events that occur in Podman. Each event will include a timestamp, a type, a status, name (if applicable), and image (if applicable). The default logging mechanism is journald. This can be changed in containers.conf by changing the events_logger value to file. Only file and journald are accepted. A none logger is also available but this logging mechanism completely disables events; nothing will be reported by podman events.

By default, streaming mode is used, printing new events as they occur. Previous events can be listed via --since and --until.

The container event type will report the follow statuses:
* attach
* checkpoint
* cleanup
* commit
* connect
* create
* disconnect
* exec
* exec_died
* exited
* export
* import
* init
* kill
* mount
* pause
* prune
* remove
* rename
* restart
* restore
* start
* stop
* sync
* unmount
* unpause

The pod event type will report the follow statuses:
* create
* kill
* pause
* remove
* start
* stop
* unpause

The image event type will report the following statuses:
* loadFromArchive,
* mount
* pull
* push
* remove
* save
* tag
* unmount
* untag

The system type will report the following statuses:
* refresh
* renumber

The volume type will report the following statuses:
* create
* prune
* remove

--filter, -f=filter

Filter events that are displayed. They must be in the format of "filter=value". The following filters are supported:
* container=name_or_id
* event=event_status (described above)
* image=name_or_id
* label=key=value
* pod=name_or_id
* volume=name_or_id
* type=event_type (described above)

In the case where an ID is used, the ID may be in its full or shortened form.

--format

Format the output to JSON Lines or using the given Go template.

Placeholder Description
.Attributes created_at, _by, labels, and more (map[])
.ContainerExitCode Exit code (int)
.Details ... Internal structure, not actually useful
.HealthStatus Health Status (string)
.ID Container ID (full 64-bit SHA)
.Image Name of image being run (string)
.Name Container name (string)
.Network Name of network being used (string)
.Status Event status (e.g., create, start, died, ...)
.Time Event timestamp (string)
.Type Event type (e.g., image, container, pod, ...)

--help

Print usage statement.

--no-trunc

Do not truncate the output (default true).

--since=timestamp

Show all events created since the given timestamp

--until=timestamp

Show all events created until the given timestamp

The since and until values can be RFC3339Nano time stamps or a Go duration string such as 10m, 5h. If no since or until values are provided, only new events will be shown.

Showing Podman events

$ podman events
2019-03-02 10:33:42.312377447 -0600 CST container create 34503c192940 (image=docker.io/library/alpine:latest, name=friendly_allen)
2019-03-02 10:33:46.958768077 -0600 CST container init 34503c192940 (image=docker.io/library/alpine:latest, name=friendly_allen)
2019-03-02 10:33:46.973661968 -0600 CST container start 34503c192940 (image=docker.io/library/alpine:latest, name=friendly_allen)
2019-03-02 10:33:50.833761479 -0600 CST container stop 34503c192940 (image=docker.io/library/alpine:latest, name=friendly_allen)
2019-03-02 10:33:51.047104966 -0600 CST container cleanup 34503c192940 (image=docker.io/library/alpine:latest, name=friendly_allen)

Show only Podman create events

$ podman events -f event=create
2019-03-02 10:36:01.375685062 -0600 CST container create 20dc581f6fbf (image=docker.io/library/alpine:latest, name=sharp_morse)
2019-03-02 10:36:08.561188337 -0600 CST container create 58e7e002344c (image=k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1, name=3e701f270d54-infra)
2019-03-02 10:36:13.146899437 -0600 CST volume create cad6dc50e087 (image=, name=cad6dc50e0879568e7d656bd004bd343d6035e7fc4024e1711506fe2fd459e6f)
2019-03-02 10:36:29.978806894 -0600 CST container create d81e30f1310f (image=docker.io/library/busybox:latest, name=musing_newton)

Show only Podman pod create events

$ podman events --filter event=create --filter type=pod
2019-03-02 10:44:29.601746633 -0600 CST pod create 1df5ebca7b44 (image=, name=confident_hawking)
2019-03-02 10:44:42.374637304 -0600 CST pod create ca731231718e (image=, name=webapp)
2019-03-02 10:44:47.486759133 -0600 CST pod create 71e807fc3a8e (image=, name=reverent_swanson)

Show only Podman events created in the last five minutes:

$ sudo podman events --since 5m
2019-03-02 10:44:29.598835409 -0600 CST container create b629d10d3831 (image=k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1, name=1df5ebca7b44-infra)
2019-03-02 10:44:29.601746633 -0600 CST pod create 1df5ebca7b44 (image=, name=confident_hawking)
2019-03-02 10:44:42.371100253 -0600 CST container create 170a0f457d00 (image=k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1, name=ca731231718e-infra)
2019-03-02 10:44:42.374637304 -0600 CST pod create ca731231718e (image=, name=webapp)

Show Podman events in JSON Lines format

$ podman events --format json
{"ID":"683b0909d556a9c02fa8cd2b61c3531a965db42158627622d1a67b391964d519","Image":"localhost/myshdemo:latest","Name":"agitated_diffie","Status":"cleanup","Time":"2019-04-27T22:47:00.849932843-04:00","Type":"container"}
{"ID":"a0f8ab051bfd43f9c5141a8a2502139707e4b38d98ac0872e57c5315381e88ad","Image":"docker.io/library/alpine:latest","Name":"friendly_tereshkova","Status":"unmount","Time":"2019-04-28T13:43:38.063017276-04:00","Type":"container"}

podman(1), containers.conf(5)

March 2019, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩