Docker top Command

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docker top :View process information running in the container, supports ps command parameters.

Syntax

docker top [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [ps OPTIONS]

The container may not have when running/bin/bash terminal to interactively execute the top command, and the container may not have the top command. You can use docker top to view the processes running in the container.

Online Examples

View process information of container mymysql.

w3codebox@w3codebox:~/mysql$ docker top mymysql
UID  PID  PPID  C  STIME  TTY  TIME  CMD
999　　　　40347　　40331　　　18　　　　　00:58　　　? 00:00:02　　　mysqld

View process information of all running containers.

for i in `docker ps | grep Up | awk '{print $'1}'`;do echo \ && docker top $i; done

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