# Container Discovery API

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/container-discovery-api/8099>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [December 24, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/container-discovery-api/8099 "2017-12-24T00:35:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Serializator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Serializator](https://forums.suse.com/u/Serializator)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/container-discovery-api/8099/1 "2017-12-24T00:35:53Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to listen for new containers being created and do something in response. I could create a timer that fetches the containers every x seconds but that wouldn’t be as real-time as it could be. I hope’d that there was an API that could be used to accomplish this.