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Updated: Jun 2025
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NAME

docke-containe-stats- Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics

SYNOPSIS

docker container stats [OPTIONS] [CONTAINER...]

DESCRIPTION

Display a live stream of one or more containers' resource usage statistics

Format

Format the output using the given Go template.
   Valid placeholders:
      .Container - Container name or ID.
      .Name - Container name.
      .ID - Container ID.
      .CPUPerc - CPU percentage.
      .MemUsage - Memory usage.
      .NetIO - Network IO.
      .BlockIO - Block IO.
      .MemPerc - Memory percentage (Not available on Windows).
      .PIDs - Number of PIDs (Not available on Windows).

EXAMPLES

Running docker container stats on all running containers.

$ docker container stats CONTAINER CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O 1285939c1fd3 0.07% 796 KiB / 64 MiB 1.21% 788 B / 648 B 3.568 MB / 512 KB 9c76f7834ae2 0.07% 2.746 MiB / 64 MiB 4.29% 1.266 KB / 648 B 12.4 MB / 0 B d1ea048f04e4 0.03% 4.583 MiB / 64 MiB 6.30% 2.854 KB / 648 B 27.7 MB / 0 B

Running docker container stats on multiple containers by name and id.

$ docker container stats fervent_panini 5acfcb1b4fd1 CONTAINER CPU % MEM USAGE/LIMIT MEM % NET I/O 5acfcb1b4fd1 0.00% 115.2 MiB/1.045 GiB 11.03% 1.422 kB/648 B fervent_panini 0.02% 11.08 MiB/1.045 GiB 1.06% 648 B/648 B

Running docker container stats with customized format on all (Running and Stopped) containers.

$ docker container stats-all-format "table {{.ID}}t{{.Name}}t{{.CPUPerc}}t{{.MemUsage}}" CONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT c9dfa83f0317f87637d5b7e67aa4223337d947215c5a9947e697e4f7d3e0f834 ecstatic_noether 0.00% 56KiB / 15.57GiB 8f92d01cf3b29b4f5fca4cd33d907e05def7af5a3684711b20a2369d211ec67f stoic_goodall 0.07% 32.86MiB / 15.57GiB 38dd23dba00f307d53d040c1d18a91361bbdcccbf592315927d56cf13d8b7343 drunk_visvesvaraya 0.00% 0B / 0B 5a8b07ec4cc52823f3cbfdb964018623c1ba307bce2c057ccdbde5f4f6990833 big_heisenberg 0.00% 0B / 0B

drunk_visvesvaraya and big_heisenberg are stopped containers in the above example.

Running docker container stats in JSON format.

$ docker container stats-format json {"BlockIO":"43.9MB / 0B","CPUPerc":"0.00%","Container":"14c505d03da8","ID":"14c505d03da8","MemPerc":"0.21%","MemUsage":"4.242MiB / 1.944GiB","Name":"registry","NetIO":"4.17kB / 0B","PIDs":"13"}

OPTIONS

-a, -all[=false] Show all containers (default shows just running)

-format="" Format output using a custom template:
'table': Print output in table format with column headers (default) 'table TEMPLATE': Print output in table format using the given Go template 'json': Print in JSON format 'TEMPLATE': Print output using the given Go template. Refer to https://docs.docker.com/go/formatting/ for more information about formatting output with templates

-n-stream[=false] Disable streaming stats and only pull the first result

-n-trunc[=false] Do not truncate output