v0.8.0 ·built with Rust

Monitor containers across every host

dtop streams live CPU, memory, network and disk metrics from local, SSH, TCP and TLS Docker daemons into a single table in your terminal.

$ brew install dtop

dtop sort cpu ↓ 4 hosts 8 containers

● all● local● deploy@edge-01● ops@db-eu● ops@db-us

state	name	host	cpu	mem	net tx	net rx	pids	up
● running	postgres-primary	ops@db-eu	█████████░░░ 74%	███████░░░░░ 61%	1.2 MB/s	3.8 MB/s	41	12d
● running	api-gateway	deploy@edge-01	██████░░░░░░ 52%	█████░░░░░░░ 38%	8.4 MB/s	6.1 MB/s	27	6d
● running	redis-cache	ops@db-eu	████░░░░░░░░ 31%	███░░░░░░░░░ 22%	900 KB/s	1.4 MB/s	12	12d
● running	nginx-ingress	deploy@edge-01	██░░░░░░░░░░ 18%	██░░░░░░░░░░ 14%	12.6 MB/s	9.3 MB/s	9	6d
▲ unhealthy	worker-etl	ops@db-us	███████████░ 88%	█████████░░░ 79%	400 KB/s	200 KB/s	33	4h
● running	grafana	local	█░░░░░░░░░░░ 11%	███░░░░░░░░░ 27%	300 KB/s	600 KB/s	18	21d
● running	prometheus	local	███░░░░░░░░░ 24%	█████░░░░░░░ 44%	800 KB/s	2.2 MB/s	16	21d
○ exited	legacy-cron	ops@db-us	░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0%	░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0%	0 KB/s	0 KB/s	—	—

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Overview

Nothing to deploy, nothing to configure

No agents on the machines you're watching, no collector, no account. Point dtop at a socket and it starts drawing.

Multi-Host Support

Monitor containers across local, SSH, and TCP connections simultaneously from a single terminal session.

local /var/run/docker.sock

ssh deploy@edge-01:2222

tcp 192.168.1.100:2375

tls ops@db-eu:2376

Real-Time Metrics

Track CPU, memory, and network I/O with smooth exponential moving averages. Color-coded at a glance.

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Fast & Lightweight

Built with Rust for minimal CPU and memory footprint. Starts instantly, runs silently in the background.

3.8 MB release binary

1.9 MB without self-update

0 agents to deploy

Config

Write it down once, or let dtop do it

Every flag can live in a YAML file. Or press Ctrl-S in the app and dtop saves your columns, sort and filters for you — keys you set by hand are preserved.

Search order

1 ./config.yaml or ./config.yml, ./.dtop.yaml, ./.dtop.yml

2 .config/dtop/config.yaml or .config/dtop/config.yml

3 .dtop.yaml or .dtop.yml

First file found wins. Command-line flags override whatever the file says.

Hosts Docker hosts to monitor

# == Hosts ==
# Docker host(s) to connect to. You can specify multiple hosts to monitor
# them simultaneously.
# Possible values for host: local, ssh://user@host, tcp://host:port, tls://host:port
# Optional fields per host: dozzle (URL), filter (list of Docker filters)
hosts:
  - host: local
  # - host: ssh://user@server1
  #   dozzle: https://dozzle.server1.com/
  #   filter:
  #     - status=running
  #     - label=environment=production
  # - host: tcp://192.168.1.100:2375
  # - host: tls://192.168.1.100:2376

Icons Icon style for the UI

# == Icons ==
# Icon style for the UI.
# Possible values: unicode, nerd (requires Nerd Font)
icons: unicode

Show All Show all containers including stopped

# == All ==
# Whether to show all containers including stopped, exited, and paused.
# Possible values: true, false
all: false

Sort Default sort field for container list

# == Sort ==
# Default sort field for the container list.
# Possible values: uptime, name, cpu, memory
sort: uptime

Columns Column visibility and order

# == Columns ==
# Column visibility and order.
# List only the columns you want to see, in the order you want them.
# Omitted columns are hidden. Press 'c' in the UI to toggle columns interactively.
# Possible values: status, name, id, host, compose, cpu, memory, pids, net_tx, net_rx, disk_read, disk_write, uptime, restarts
# columns:
#   - status
#   - name
#   - id
#   - host
#   - compose
#   - cpu
#   - memory
#   - net_tx
#   - net_rx
#   - uptime
#   - restarts

Reference

Flags

Generated from dtop --help, so it stays correct as the binary changes.

-H, --host <HOST>

Docker host(s) to connect to. Can be specified multiple times.

--host local Connect to local Docker daemon / active Docker context

--host unix:///path/docker.sock (Connect to a specific Unix socket)
  --host ssh://user@host

Connect via SSH

--host ssh://user@host:2222 Connect via SSH with custom port

--host tcp://host:2375 Connect via TCP to remote Docker daemon

--host tls://host:2376 Connect via TLS

--host local --host ssh://user@server1 --host tls://server2:2376 Multiple hosts

-i, --icons <ICONS>

Icon style to use for the UI

--icons unicode Standard Unicode icons (default, works everywhere)

--icons nerd Nerd Font icons (requires Nerd Font installed)

-f, --filter <FILTER>

Filter containers (can be specified multiple times)

--filter status=running

--filter name=nginx

--filter label=com.example.version=1.0

--filter ancestor=ubuntu:24.04

-a, --all

Show all containers (default shows only running containers)

-s, --sort <SORT>

Default sort field for container list

--sort uptime Sort by container uptime/creation time (default, newest first)

--sort name Sort by container name (alphabetically)

--sort cpu Sort by CPU usage (highest first)

--sort memory Sort by memory usage (highest first)

Hosts and filters combine — dtop --host local --host ssh://user@server -f status=running

Keys

Hands stay on the keyboard

Eight bindings cover the whole surface. Press ? anywhere for the overlay.

↑↓ Move between containers

→ Stream this container's logs

← Back to the container list

Enter Start, stop, restart, remove

/ Search by name or ID

s Choose the sort field

c Show and reorder columns

a Include stopped containers

Start watching in one command

macOS and Linux, Intel and ARM. No account, no telemetry.

$ brew install dtop