8.2. Displaying pod information

Prerequisites

• The container-tools meta-package is installed.
• The pod has been created. For details, see section Creating pods.

Procedure

• Display active processes running in a pod:

  • To display the running processes of containers in a pod, enter:

    $ podman pod top mypod
    USER   PID   PPID   %CPU    ELAPSED         TTY     TIME   COMMAND
    0      1     0      0.000   24.077433518s   ?       0s     /pause
    root   1     0      0.000   24.078146025s   pts/0   0s     /bin/bash

  • To display a live stream of resource usage stats for containers in one or more pods, enter:

    $ podman pod stats -a --no-stream
    ID             NAME              CPU %   MEM USAGE / LIMIT   MEM %   NET IO    BLOCK IO   PIDS
    a9f807ffaacd   frosty_hodgkin    --      3.092MB / 16.7GB    0.02%   -- / --   -- / --    2
    3b33001239ee   sleepy_stallman   --      -- / --             --      -- / --   -- / --    --

  • To display information describing the pod, enter:

    $ podman pod inspect --format json <POD_ID_1> <POD_ID_2> <POD_ID_3>
    [
      {
          "CgroupParent": "/libpod_parent",
          "Containers": [
            {
              "ID": "...",
              "State": "..."
            }
          ],
          "Created": "2025-10-16T12:00:00.000000000Z",
          "ID": "673f326c9f69b0d24c0847f97a544c79532817d2a713917812f865f1e8e52a8a",
          "InfraContainerID": "...",
          "Labels": {},
          "Name": "web_pod",
          "State": "Running",
        },
        {
          "CgroupParent": "/libpod_parent",
          "Containers": [
            {
              "ID": "...",
              "State": "..."
            }
          ],
          "Created": "2025-10-16T12:01:00.000000000Z",
          "ID": "a1b2c3d4e5f678901234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef",
          "InfraContainerID": "...",
          "Labels": {},
          "Name": "db_pod",
          "State": "Running",
        }
    ]

    You can see information about containers in the pod.