command: docker compose events short: Receive real time events from containers. long: |- Stream container events for every container in the project. With the `--json` flag, a json object is printed one per line with the format: ```json { "time": "2015-11-20T18:01:03.615550", "type": "container", "action": "create", "id": "213cf7...5fc39a", "service": "web", "attributes": { "name": "application_web_1", "image": "alpine:edge" } } ``` The events that can be received using this can be seen [here](/engine/reference/commandline/events/#object-types). usage: docker compose events [options] [--] [SERVICE...] pname: docker compose plink: docker_compose.yaml options: - option: json value_type: bool default_value: "false" description: Output events as a stream of json objects deprecated: false hidden: false experimental: false experimentalcli: false kubernetes: false swarm: false deprecated: false experimental: false experimentalcli: false kubernetes: false swarm: false