composure 0.1.3

A terminal tool to audit, optimize, and visualize Docker-Compose stacks in real-time

Composure

A terminal tool to audit, optimize, and visualize Docker-Compose stacks in real-time.

What is Composure?

Composure is a TUI (Terminal User Interface) dashboard that helps you:

• Monitor all your Docker containers in real-time
• Detect waste by comparing actual resource usage vs allocated limits
• Visualize networks to see how containers connect to each other
• Control containers directly from the terminal (start, stop, restart, view logs)

Features

• Resource Monitoring: See CPU and memory usage for all containers
• Waste Detection: Identify over-provisioned containers with waste scores
• Limit Awareness: Quickly spot containers without resource limits
• Network Visualization: Tree view showing container network topology
• Container Controls: Start, stop, restart containers with keyboard shortcuts
• Live Logs: View recent logs for any container
• Parallel Loading: Fast startup even with many containers

Installation

Using pip (recommended)

pip install composure

Using uv

uv tool install composure

Using Docker

docker run -it -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock jamesdimonaco/composure

Debian/Ubuntu (apt)

# Add the repository
curl -fsSL https://jamesdimonaco.github.io/composure/gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/composure.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/composure.gpg] https://jamesdimonaco.github.io/composure stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/composure.list

# Install
sudo apt update
sudo apt install composure

From source

git clone https://github.com/JamesDimonaco/composure.git
cd composure
uv sync
uv run composure

Usage

Simply run:

composure

Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
q	Quit
r	Refresh
n	Toggle network view
s	Stop selected container
a	Start selected container
x	Restart selected container
l	Show logs for selected container
?	Show help
↑/↓	Navigate containers

Understanding the Dashboard

Main View

Container     Status   CPU %  CPU Limit  RAM Used  RAM Limit  Efficiency  Waste
nginx         running  0.5%   2 cores    45 MB     512 MB     LOW         90
api           running  2.1%   No limit   128 MB    256 MB     MEDIUM      40
postgres      running  1.2%   1 core     256 MB    512 MB     GOOD        20

Columns Explained

• Status: running, exited, paused, etc.
• CPU %: Current CPU usage
• CPU Limit: Configured CPU limit (or "No limit")
• RAM Used: Current memory usage
• RAM Limit: Configured memory limit (or "No limit")
• Efficiency: LOW/MEDIUM/GOOD/HIGH based on resource utilization
• Waste: 0-100 score (higher = more over-provisioned)

Waste Score

The waste score helps identify containers that have been allocated far more resources than they're using:

• 0-30 (green): Good utilization
• 30-60 (yellow): Could be optimized
• 60-100 (red): Significantly over-provisioned

Network View

Press n to see a tree view of your Docker networks:

Docker Networks
├── Compose Networks
│   └── myapp_default (3 containers)
│       ├── nginx
│       ├── api
│       └── postgres
└── System Networks
    └── bridge (empty)

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• Docker Engine running locally
• Access to Docker socket

Development

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/JamesDimonaco/composure.git
cd composure

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run in development
uv run composure

# Run tests
uv run pytest

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

Acknowledgments

Built with:

• Textual - TUI framework
• docker-py - Docker SDK for Python
• Typer - CLI framework