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DOCKER-COMPOSE-EVENTS(1) DOCKER-COMPOSE-EVENTS(1)

docker-compose-events - Receive real time events from containers

docker compose events [OPTIONS] [SERVICE...]

Stream container events for every container in the project.

With the --json flag, a json object is printed one per line with the format:

{


    "time": "2015-11-20T18:01:03.615550",


    "type": "container",


    "action": "create",


    "id": "213cf7...5fc39a",


    "service": "web",


    "attributes": {


      "name": "application_web_1",


      "image": "alpine:edge"


    }
}

The events that can be received using this can be seen here ⟨/reference/cli/docker/system/events/#object-types⟩.

-h, --help[=false] help for events

--json[=false] Output events as a stream of json objects

--dry-run[=false] Execute command in dry run mode

docker-compose(1)

Mar 2025