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lxc-monitor(1)                                            lxc-monitor(1)

NAME         top

       lxc-monitor - monitor the container state

SYNOPSIS         top

       lxc-monitor [-n name] [-Q name]

DESCRIPTION         top

       lxc-monitor  monitors  the state of containers. The name argument
       may be used to specify which containers to monitor. It is a regu‐
       lar expression, conforming with posix2, so it is possible to mon‐
       itor all the containers, several of them  or  just  one.  If  not
       specified,  name will default to '.*' which will monitor all con‐
       tainers in lxcpath.

       The -P, --lxcpath=PATH option may be specified multiple times  to
       monitor  more than one container path. Note however that contain‐
       ers with the same name in multiple paths will  be  indistinguish‐
       able in the output.

OPTIONS         top

       -Q, --quit
              Ask the lxc-monitord daemon on each given lxcpath to quit.
              After receiving this command, lxc-monitord will exit imme‐
              diately as soon as it has no clients instead of waiting
              the normal 30 seconds for new clients. This is useful if
              you need to unmount the filesystem lxcpath is on.

COMMON OPTIONS         top

       These options are common to most of lxc commands.

       -?, -h, --help
              Print a longer usage message than normal.

       --usage
              Give the usage message

       -q, --quiet
              mute on

       -P, --lxcpath=PATH
              Use an alternate container path. The default is
              /var/lib/lxc.

       -o, --logfile=FILE
              Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.

       -l, --logpriority=LEVEL
              Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is ER‐
              ROR. Possible values are : FATAL, ALERT, CRIT, WARN, ER‐
              ROR, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE.

              Note that this option is setting the priority of the
              events log in the alternate log file. It do not have ef‐
              fect on the ERROR events log on stderr.

       -n, --name=NAME
              Use container identifier NAME.  The container identifier
              format is an alphanumeric string.

       --rcfile=FILE
              Specify the configuration file to configure the virtual‐
              ization and isolation functionalities for the container.

              This configuration file if present will be used even if
              there is already a configuration file present in the pre‐
              viously created container (via lxc-create).

       --version
              Show the version number.

EXAMPLES         top

       lxc-monitor -n foo
              will monitor the different states for container foo.

       lxc-monitor -n 'foo|bar'
              will monitor the different states for container foo and
              bar.

       lxc-monitor -n '[fb].*'
              will monitor the different states for container with the
              name beginning with letter 'f' or 'b'.

       lxc-monitor -n '.*'
              will monitor the different states for all containers.

DIAGNOSTIC         top

       The container was not found
              The specified container was not created before with the
              lxc-create command.

SEE ALSO         top

       regex(7),

SEE ALSO         top

       lxc(7), lxc-create(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1),
       lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1),
       lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-info(1),
       lxc-freeze(1), lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the lxc (Linux containers) project.  Infor‐
       mation about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://linuxcontainers.org/⟩.  If you have a bug report for this
       manual page, send it to lxc-devel@lists.linuxcontainers.org.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/lxc/lxc.git⟩ on 2024-06-14.  (At that time,
       the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
       repository was 2024-06-05.)  If you discover any rendering
       problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there
       is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
       corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org

                               2024-04-03                 lxc-monitor(1)

Pages that refer to this page: lxc-attach(1),  lxc-autostart(1),  lxc-cgroup(1),  lxc-checkconfig(1),  lxc-checkpoint(1),  lxc-config(1),  lxc-console(1),  lxc-copy(1),  lxc-create(1),  lxc-destroy(1),  lxc-device(1),  lxc-execute(1),  lxc-freeze(1),  lxc-info(1),  lxc-ls(1),  lxc-monitor(1),  lxc-snapshot(1),  lxc-start(1),  lxc-stop(1),  lxc-top(1),  lxc-unfreeze(1),  lxc-unshare(1),  lxc-update-config(1),  lxc-usernsexec(1),  lxc-wait(1),  lxc.container.conf(5),  lxc.system.conf(5),  lxc(7)

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