---
description: Inspect information about a machine
keywords: machine, inspect, subcommand
title: docker-machine inspect
---

```none
Usage: docker-machine inspect [OPTIONS] [arg...]

Inspect information about a machine

Description:
   Argument is a machine name.

Options:
   --format, -f 	Format the output using the given go template.
```

By default, this renders information about a machine as JSON. If a format is
specified, the given template is executed for each result.

Go's [text/template](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/) package
describes all the details of the format.

In addition to the `text/template` syntax, there are some additional functions,
`json` and `prettyjson`, which can be used to format the output as JSON (documented below).

## Examples

**List all the details of a machine:**

This is the default usage of `inspect`.

```bash
$ docker-machine inspect dev

{
    "DriverName": "virtualbox",
    "Driver": {
        "MachineName": "docker-host-128be8d287b2028316c0ad5714b90bcfc11f998056f2f790f7c1f43f3d1e6eda",
        "SSHPort": 55834,
        "Memory": 1024,
        "DiskSize": 20000,
        "Boot2DockerURL": "",
        "IPAddress": "192.168.5.99"
    },
    ...
}
```

**Get a machine's IP address:**

For the most part, you can pick out any field from the JSON in a fairly
straightforward manner.

{% raw %}
```bash
$ docker-machine inspect --format='{{.Driver.IPAddress}}' dev

192.168.5.99
```
{% endraw %}

**Formatting details:**

If you want a subset of information formatted as JSON, you can use the `json`
function in the template.

```bash
$ docker-machine inspect --format='{{json .Driver}}' dev-fusion

{"Boot2DockerURL":"","CPUS":8,"CPUs":8,"CaCertPath":"/Users/hairyhenderson/.docker/machine/certs/ca.pem","DiskSize":20000,"IPAddress":"172.16.62.129","ISO":"/Users/hairyhenderson/.docker/machine/machines/dev-fusion/boot2docker-1.5.0-GH747.iso","MachineName":"dev-fusion","Memory":1024,"PrivateKeyPath":"/Users/hairyhenderson/.docker/machine/certs/ca-key.pem","SSHPort":22,"SSHUser":"docker","SwarmDiscovery":"","SwarmHost":"tcp://0.0.0.0:3376","SwarmMaster":false}
```

While this is usable, it's not very human-readable. For this reason, there is
`prettyjson`:

{% raw %}
```bash
$ docker-machine inspect --format='{{prettyjson .Driver}}' dev-fusion

{
  "Boot2DockerURL": "",
  "CPUS": 8,
  "CPUs": 8,
  "CaCertPath": "/Users/hairyhenderson/.docker/machine/certs/ca.pem",
  "DiskSize": 20000,
  "IPAddress": "172.16.62.129",
  "ISO": "/Users/hairyhenderson/.docker/machine/machines/dev-fusion/boot2docker-1.5.0-GH747.iso",
  "MachineName": "dev-fusion",
  "Memory": 1024,
  "PrivateKeyPath": "/Users/hairyhenderson/.docker/machine/certs/ca-key.pem",
  "SSHPort": 22,
  "SSHUser": "docker",
  "SwarmDiscovery": "",
  "SwarmHost": "tcp://0.0.0.0:3376",
  "SwarmMaster": false
}
{% endraw %}
```