Docker Stats with Containers Names

When running plenty of containers you may wonder which one is killing your server memory or CPU.
Then your first step would be to run:

docker stats

That is the basic first step to know what’s going on… too bad it shows only container’s IDs which - if you ask me - is not very useful.

Today I resolved to see container’s names so I googled my problem only to find out that you can actually configure which format you want docker stats to speak the results:

docker stats $(docker ps --format={{.Names}})

Now we are getting somewhere! I thought.

One second later I realized I will never remember it so I added it as a utility to my Docker helper project Humble:

humble do stats

(If you are currently using Docker Humble please remember to update it: humble update-cli)