Docker Monitoring with top and stats

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The docker provides some in-house monitoring tools to extract the runtime information.

docker top is one such command.

[root@node01 ~]# docker top [container-id | container-name]

Here is the output of the docker top command.

[root@node01 ~]# docker top admiring_torvalds 
UID                 PID                 PPID                C                   STIME               TTY                 TIME                CMD
centos              13169               13153               0                   10:43               ?                   00:00:00            /bin/tini -- /usr/local/bin/jenkins.sh
centos              13191               13169               9                   10:43               ?                   00:00:21            java -jar /usr/share/jenkins/jenkins.war

When you try to see the stats of an exited container it shows up with an error as follows as the container is not running

[vamshi@node01 ~]$ docker top exited_container
Error response from daemon: Container 31b8ab84a175ce79b03ba1c9608e9d358db45f74914407212b0d2c7744324806 is not running

The docker also provides a stat command which prints out the current docker image stats
The syntax:
# sudo docker stats [CONTAINER ID | CONTAINER NAME]

This is demonstrated as follows:

CONTAINER ID        NAME                   CPU %               MEM USAGE / LIMIT   MEM %               NET I/O             BLOCK I/O           PIDS
73caf780c813        do-nothing-container   0.00%               996KiB / 471.5MiB   0.21%               2.08kB / 0B         4.81MB / 0B         1

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