podman-events(1) General Commands Manual podman-events(1)

podman-events - Monitor Podman events

podman events [options]

podman system events [options]

Monitor and print events that occur in Podman. Each event includes 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 is 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 reports the follow statuses:
* attach
* checkpoint
* cleanup
* commit
* connect
* create
* died
* disconnect
* exec
* exec_died
* exited
* export
* import
* init
* kill
* mount
* pause
* prune
* remove
* rename
* restart
* restore
* start
* stop
* sync
* unmount
* unpause
* update

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

The image event type reports the following statuses:
* loadFromArchive,
* mount
* pull
* pull-error
* push
* remove
* save
* tag
* unmount
* untag

The system type reports the following statuses:
* refresh
* renumber

The volume type reports the following statuses:
* create
* prune
* remove

Setting events_container_create_inspect_data=true in containers.conf(5) instructs Podman to create more verbose container-create events which include a JSON payload with detailed information about the containers. The JSON payload is identical to the one of podman-container-inspect(1). The associated field in journald is named PODMAN_CONTAINER_INSPECT_DATA.

--filter, -f=filter

Filter events that are displayed. They must be in the format of "filter=value". The following filters are supported:

Filter Description
container [Name or ID] Container's name or ID
event event_status (described above)
image [Name or ID] Image name or ID
label [key=value] label
pod [Name or ID] Pod name or ID
volume [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. The "die" event is mapped to "died" for Docker compatibility.

--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)
.ContainerInspectData Payload of the container's inspect
.Error Error message in case the event status is an error (e.g. pull-error)
.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)
.PodID ID of pod associated with container, if any
.Status Event status (e.g., create, start, died, ...)
.Time Event timestamp (string)
.TimeNano Event timestamp with nanosecond precision (int64)
.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

--stream

Stream events and do not exit after reading the last known event (default true).

--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 are shown.

The journald events-backend of Podman uses the following journald identifiers. You can use the identifiers to filter Podman events directly with journalctl.

Identifier Description
SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER Always set to "podman"
PODMAN_EVENT The event status as described above
PODMAN_TYPE The event type as described above
PODMAN_TIME The time stamp when the event was written
PODMAN_NAME Name of the event object (e.g., container, image)
PODMAN_ID ID of the event object (e.g., container, image)
PODMAN_EXIT_CODE Exit code of the container
PODMAN_POD_ID Pod ID of the container
PODMAN_LABELS Labels of the container
PODMAN_HEALTH_STATUS Health status of the container
PODMAN_CONTAINER_INSPECT_DATA The JSON payload of podman-inspect as described above
PODMAN_NETWORK_NAME The name of the network

Show 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 container 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=registry.k8s.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=registry.k8s.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=registry.k8s.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⟩