From 2f5717c494daba66c62fe153480d6a5f7f03f550 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Antoni <stefan@antoni.io>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:56:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add A simple way to monitor resource utilization

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 README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3c934b0..1a1cc48 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -452,6 +452,21 @@ ID=$(docker run -d image-name /bin/bash)
 gzip -dc image.tgz | docker import - flat-image-name
 ```
 
+### Monitor system resource utilization for running containers
+
+To check the CPU, memory and network i/o usage, you can use:
+
+```
+docker stats <container>
+``` 
+
+for a single container or 
+
+```
+docker stats $(docker ps -q)
+```
+
+to monitor all containers on the docker host.
 
 ## Tools