Docker’s ‘docker stats’ & names

This is mostly a technical reminder to my future self and a selection of the tips from a proposal I found at https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/20973. 😉

When using Docker, now and then I need to keep an eye on the run-time behaviour of the Docker containers. To do this, there’s a nice docker command:

docker stats

How ever, in the current version (17.05.0-ce, build 89658be), the containers are listed using the container ID.

I find it much easier to use the container names instead of the IDs, so here are two ways to display them:

On an environment I don’t control (a colleagues machine when pairing, a test environment…) there’s a way to change the display of ‘docker stats’ for a single use of the command:
```
docker stats $(docker ps --format={{.Names}})
```
On my machine, I like to have this all the time, so I edited ~/.docker/config.json and added the following key-value pair:
```
"statsFormat": "table {{.Name}}\t \
{{.CPUPerc}}\t \
{{.MemUsage}}\t \
{{.MemPerc}}\t{{.NetIO}}\t \
{{.BlockIO}}\t{{.PIDs}}"
```
(The backslash at the end of the line indicates the the line is actually continuing.)

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