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Sidekick Docker

Sidekick for Docker

Your Docker dashboard, everywhere.

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A full-featured Docker management dashboard that runs in your terminal and in VS Code. Manage containers, Compose projects, images, volumes, and networks from a real-time, keyboard-driven interface.

Sidekick Docker TUI Demo

Sidekick Docker VS Code Extension Demo

Feature Highlights

  • Five-panel dashboard — Containers, Compose Services, Images, Volumes, Networks
  • Real-time streaming — logs, stats sparklines, and Docker events update live
  • Smart log highlighting — token-level syntax coloring for HTTP methods, status codes, URLs, IPs, timestamps, JSON keys, and more
  • Log search & filter — search within log output with exact or fuzzy matching and match highlighting
  • Log analytics — severity counts, severity sparkline over time, and pattern clustering that groups similar logs into templates
  • Health status tracking — shows healthy/unhealthy/starting badges for containers with health checks
  • Full container lifecycle — start, stop, restart, pause, unpause, remove, exec
  • Container sorting — sort by state, name, CPU, memory, network I/O, block I/O, or PIDs with reverse toggle
  • Show all / running toggle — filter container list to running-only with a single keypress
  • Filesystem inspector — view all filesystem changes inside containers (added/changed/deleted files)
  • Image layer explorer — inspect image layer history with sizes and Dockerfile instructions
  • Network & block I/O sparklines — rate-based sparklines for network and disk activity
  • Vi keybindings — j/k navigation, g/G jump, 1-5 panel switching
  • Compose support — automatic project detection, per-project actions
  • Interactive exec — shell into running containers without leaving the dashboard
  • Filter & search — / to filter any resource list
  • Mouse support — click to select, scroll to navigate
  • VS Code extension — the same dashboard, embedded as a webview panel (works in VS Code, VSCodium, and compatible editors)

Quick Install

Terminal (TUI)

npm install -g sidekick-docker
sidekick-docker

VS Code / VSCodium / Compatible Editors

Install the Sidekick Docker extension from Open VSX or the VS Code Marketplace, then run Sidekick Docker: Open Dashboard from the command palette.

See Also

Sidekick Agent Hub — Multi-provider AI coding agent monitor. Real-time visibility into Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex CLI sessions with token tracking, context management, and session intelligence. Available as a TUI on npm and as a VS Code extension on the Marketplace and Open VSX.

Next Steps