How do I run top on a docker container?

petulia3478

You can run top by logging into the docker container as per most servers or you can run it outside of the container.

$ sudo docker top 83c2cf341196
UID                 PID                 PPID                C                   STIME               TTY                 TIME                CMD
root                16444               3748                1                   09:15               ?                   00:00:03            /usr/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/usr/local/tomcat/conf/logging.properties -
Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -
Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/local/tomcat/endorsed -classpath 
/usr/local/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -
Dcatalina.base=/usr/local/tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/local/tomcat -
Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/local/tomcat/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start