DOCKER-COMPOSE-EVENTS(1)

💖 docker-compose-events — bestie's guide to the vibes 💖

okay so this is the manual page for docker-compose-events from the docker-compose fam, and bestie, it's giving real time. it's literally in the DOCKER-COMPOSE-EVENTS(1) manual, and we're about to make it make sense. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

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

no cap, that's the whole job. it watches your containers and tells you what they're doing, as they do it. main character energy for real.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

that's it. that's the whole incantation. type it and the tea starts pouring. ☕

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Stream container events for every container in the project. every single one. you're not picking and choosing here, it's the whole group chat. 💅

now, the moment you add the --json flag, it switches the vibe: a json object is printed one per line, in this exact 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"
    }
}

look at that structure. time, type, action, id, service, and an attributes block holding name and image. gorgeous. iconic. no notes. 😭✨

and the events that can be received using this? you can see them here: ⟨/reference/cli/docker/system/events/#object-types⟩. go peek, iykyk. 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help[=false] — help for events. your lil "wait what does this do again" button. 🎀
• --json[=false] — Output events as a stream of json objects. flip this on when you want machine-readable receipts instead of vibes. 🔥

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

• --dry-run[=false] — Execute command in dry run mode. a lil rehearsal before the real performance, bestie. no actual changes, just practice. 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• docker-compose(1) — the parent, the blueprint, the origin story. go read it, fr fr. 💜

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🫶 reminder from your girl: every flag, every value, every default above is exactly what the original says. don't @ me with "i thought it was different." it wasn't. periodt. 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the docker-compose-events(1) manual, dated Mar 2025, and yeah the footer said DOCKER-COMPOSE-EVENTS(1) too because it loves symmetry. go stream some events, you ate. 💖🌸✨