How to check the HISTORY of Docker Container Restarts

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#1

I'm trying to find the history of container restarts.

Of course the STATUS field on a docker ps will show the current uptime.

However if I have a container with a restart policy such as restart: unless-stopped and it's gone through several restarts - How can I check that restart/uptime history?

If the docker engine doesn't natively track this - is there a known good method to handle this?

#2

You can view the docker events. E.g. this will show all restart events for the last hour:

docker events --filter event=restart --since=60m

For more details on docker events, see: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/events

#3

You can check with following command:

docker system --filter event=restart

For more information : https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/system_events