History, the comic

What happened while you were out.

The same kitchen as the other comics, the morning after. You were not there last night, but the kitchen kept notes: what rang, what stayed quiet and why, how hard every cook worked, and everything that came and went.

1 The bell and its book

A notification is gone in seconds. The app keeps them: a bell with a count, and the last 200 in a book underneath. A click goes where the notification itself went.

Muted a cook, or turned a kind of notification off? It still goes in the book, greyed out, with the reason. Silent means it did not interrupt you, not that you never see it.

With the window closed is exactly when you miss one, so the last three are in the tray menu too.

2 A day of work

Every minute the app notes how hard each cook works, CPU and memory, and keeps a whole day of it. Even a restart of the app does not wipe it.

Six hours of memory that keeps climbing puts a cook on the attention card, as a hint, not an alarm: plenty of cooks need more for good reasons.

On the dashboard the two lines across all cooks; on a cook their own line, with their memory limit underneath. A leak or a nightly rush is invisible in three minutes, not in a day.

3 The kitchen’s diary

Docker itself remembers only its last 256 events, and forgets them when it restarts. So the app keeps a diary of its own, per kitchen.

The Events page has everything together, newest first: started, stopped, crashed, pulled, removed. Narrow it down by kind, name, compose project and period. A crash stands out in red.

In Docker Client MX: a bell with its book, a day of every cook’s work, and a diary that outlasts Docker’s own.

The cheat sheet

Every picture above, in the app’s words.

The bell and its count: Notifications, with the number you have not read
The book underneath: The last 200 notifications
Greyed out, with the reason: A muted notification, still logged
The card at night: The last three in the tray menu
A dot every minute: CPU and memory per container, kept for 24 hours
Six hours going up: A memory hint on the attention card
Docker’s short tape: The engine keeps only its last 256 events
The kitchen’s diary: The Events page, kept per context
The magnifying glass: Filters by kind, name, project and period

Now read your own kitchen’s diary.

The last 200 notifications, a day of CPU and memory per container, and an event history Docker itself would have forgotten.

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