--- title: "network inspect" description: "The network inspect command description and usage" keywords: ["network, inspect, user-defined"] --- # network inspect ```markdown Usage: docker network inspect [OPTIONS] NETWORK [NETWORK...] Display detailed information on one or more networks Options: -f, --format string Format the output using the given Go template --help Print usage ``` Returns information about one or more networks. By default, this command renders all results in a JSON object. For example, if you connect two containers to the default `bridge` network: ```bash $ sudo docker run -itd --name=container1 busybox f2870c98fd504370fb86e59f32cd0753b1ac9b69b7d80566ffc7192a82b3ed27 $ sudo docker run -itd --name=container2 busybox bda12f8922785d1f160be70736f26c1e331ab8aaf8ed8d56728508f2e2fd4727 ``` The `network inspect` command shows the containers, by id, in its results. For networks backed by multi-host network driver, such as Overlay, this command also shows the container endpoints in other hosts in the cluster. These endpoints are represented as "ep-{endpoint-id}" in the output. You can specify an alternate format to execute a given template for each result. Go's [text/template](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/) package describes all the details of the format. ```bash $ sudo docker network inspect bridge [ { "Name": "bridge", "Id": "b2b1a2cba717161d984383fd68218cf70bbbd17d328496885f7c921333228b0f", "Created": "2016-10-19T04:33:30.360899459Z", "Scope": "local", "Driver": "bridge", "IPAM": { "Driver": "default", "Config": [ { "Subnet": "172.17.42.1/16", "Gateway": "172.17.42.1" } ] }, "Internal": false, "Containers": { "bda12f8922785d1f160be70736f26c1e331ab8aaf8ed8d56728508f2e2fd4727": { "Name": "container2", "EndpointID": "0aebb8fcd2b282abe1365979536f21ee4ceaf3ed56177c628eae9f706e00e019", "MacAddress": "02:42:ac:11:00:02", "IPv4Address": "172.17.0.2/16", "IPv6Address": "" }, "f2870c98fd504370fb86e59f32cd0753b1ac9b69b7d80566ffc7192a82b3ed27": { "Name": "container1", "EndpointID": "a00676d9c91a96bbe5bcfb34f705387a33d7cc365bac1a29e4e9728df92d10ad", "MacAddress": "02:42:ac:11:00:01", "IPv4Address": "172.17.0.1/16", "IPv6Address": "" } }, "Options": { "com.docker.network.bridge.default_bridge": "true", "com.docker.network.bridge.enable_icc": "true", "com.docker.network.bridge.enable_ip_masquerade": "true", "com.docker.network.bridge.host_binding_ipv4": "0.0.0.0", "com.docker.network.bridge.name": "docker0", "com.docker.network.driver.mtu": "1500" }, "Labels": {} } ] ``` Returns the information about the user-defined network: ```bash $ docker network create simple-network 69568e6336d8c96bbf57869030919f7c69524f71183b44d80948bd3927c87f6a $ docker network inspect simple-network [ { "Name": "simple-network", "Id": "69568e6336d8c96bbf57869030919f7c69524f71183b44d80948bd3927c87f6a", "Created": "2016-10-19T04:33:30.360899459Z", "Scope": "local", "Driver": "bridge", "IPAM": { "Driver": "default", "Config": [ { "Subnet": "172.22.0.0/16", "Gateway": "172.22.0.1" } ] }, "Containers": {}, "Options": {}, "Labels": {} } ] ``` ## Related information * [network disconnect ](network_disconnect.md) * [network connect](network_connect.md) * [network create](network_create.md) * [network ls](network_ls.md) * [network rm](network_rm.md) * [Understand Docker container networks](https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/networking/)