Monitoring

High availability Docker servers are monitored with tools that are up to the tasks such as collecting your logs and providing usage statistics. For simple needs or your development box however, you may use the following command:

This will output a live list of running containers plus information about how many resources they consume on the host machine. Like a docker ps extended with live resource usage data.

Here’s an example output:

Sorry that was small. Here’s the most interesting part zoomed in:

In the next lesson, we will go over how Docker uses your disk space and how you can reclaim it.