docs: add info for events backlog and scope

1. Adds `docker events` description info on the two scope types of events.
2. Adds `docker events` note in two places about backlog limit of event log.

Further info and background info in Issue 727

Signed-off-by: Bret Fisher <bret@bretfisher.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
(cherry picked from commit 988b9a0d96)
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
Upstream-commit: 74d51dc13b
Component: cli
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Bret Fisher
2018-01-14 01:08:23 -05:00
committed by Sebastiaan van Stijn
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## Description
Use `docker events` to get real-time events from the server. These events differ
per Docker object type.
per Docker object type. Different event types have different scopes. Local
scoped events are only seen on the node they take place on, and swarm scoped
events are seen on all managers.
Only the last 1000 log events are returned. You can use filters to further limit
the number of events returned.
### Object types
@ -160,6 +165,9 @@ that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap
seconds (aka Unix epoch or Unix time), and the optional .nanoseconds field is a
fraction of a second no more than nine digits long.
Only the last 1000 log events are returned. You can use filters to further limit
the number of events returned.
#### Filtering
The filtering flag (`-f` or `--filter`) format is of "key=value". If you would