Services tool window

The Services tool window enables you to manage various services that help you during software development, such as run/debug configurations, application servers, database sessions, and Docker connections. Plugin developers can add other services through the IntelliJ platform API.

The main toolbar contains the following buttons and menus that are common for all service types:

Expand All Control+NumPad-+

Expand all items in the list.

Collapse All Control+NumPad--

Collapse all items in the list.

Group By

Choose how you want to organize the list of services:

Service Type: arrange services by type, such as Run Dashboard, Docker, or Database
Service Groups: arrange services by group, such as a build tool or a data source name

Filter

Choose how you want to filter the list of services.

Open in New Tab

Move the selected items to a separate tab.

Add Service Alt+Insert

Choose a service type to add.

Run/debug configurations

Run/debug configurations are not listed in the Services tool window by default. You need to explicitly specify the types of configurations you want to be available and create the corresponding configurations.

Add Run/Debug configurations to the Services window

Select View | Tool Windows | Services from the main menu or press Alt+8.
In the Services tool window, click Add service, then select Run Configuration Type.
Select a run/debug configuration type from the list to add all configurations of this type to the window.
Note that the tool window will only display the configuration types for which you have created one or more configurations.

Buttons on the toolbar depend on the selected type of the run/debug configuration and can include the following:

Run Control+Shift+F10

Run the selected configuration.

Debug Control Shift D

Run the selected configuration in Debug mode.

Stop Control+F2

Stop the selected configuration.

Rerun Control+Shift+F10

Rerun the selected configuration.

Rerun in Debug Mode Control Shift D

Rerun the selected configuration in Debug mode.

Filters

Filter the output for the selected configuration. For example, you can select to show warnings and successful steps.

Additional actions related to the configuration. For example, you can open and modify the settings of the selected configuration.

Application servers

All types of application server run/debug configurations are available in the Services tool window by default. Create an application server configuration, and it will be available in the list of services.

Icon	Action	Description
	Run `Control+Shift+F10`	Run the selected application server configuration.
	Rerun `Control+Shift+F10`	Restart the selected application server configuration.
	Debug `Control Shift D`	Debug the selected application server configuration.
	Stop `Control+F2`	Stop the selected application server configuration.
	Deploy All	Deploy all artifacts of the selected application server configuration.
	Artifacts	Configure which artifacts to deploy for the selected application server configuration.
	Update Running Application `Command F10`	Update a running application after modifying the source code.

Cloud providers

This type of service is available if you have configured the corresponding cloud provider settings.

Add a cloud provider

Click , select Cloud Connection, and then select the necessary cloud provider.
Configure the cloud provider connection settings and click OK to apply the new configuration.

Icon	Action	Description
	Connect	Connect to the selected cloud provider.
	Disconnect	Disconnect from the selected cloud provider.
	Edit Configuration `Shift+F4`	Configure the selected cloud provider connection settings.
	Deploy	Deploy artifacts to the selected cloud provider.

Database service

In the database service, you can manage your sessions and connections. Connection is a physical communication channel and session is a state of information exchange. For example, if you surf a social network, your connection log might have thousands of connection entries between a client and a server while a session log might show you only a single log entry with the number of bytes transferred.

For more information about managing database sessions, refer to Sessions.

Database services in the Services tool window

Left toolbar controls

Data sources

Icon	Action and shortcut	Description
	Jump to Query Console `Control+Shift+F10`	Open the Query Consoles popup. In the Query Consoles popup, you can select a query console that you want to open in the editor.
	Deactivate `Control+F2`	Close the database connection for the selected data source or data sources. (The data sources with connected sessions are indicated with a green dot in the corner of their icon.)

Sessions

Icon	Action and shortcut	Description
`Tx`	Transaction Mode and Transaction Isolation	Select the isolation level for database transactions and the way the transactions are committed. Auto: the current transaction is committed automatically when you submit your local changes to the database server. Manual: the changes submitted to the database server are accumulated in a transaction that can either be committed or rolled back explicitly by means of the Submit and Commit () or Roll Back () buttons on the toolbar. For more information about database transaction modes and isolation, refer to Submit changes to a database.
	Commit	Commit the current transaction. This button is available only for the manual transaction mode. See also, transaction mode and isolation.
	Roll back	Roll back changes. This button is available only for the manual transaction mode. See also, transaction modes and isolation.
	Cancel Running Statements `Control+F2`	Terminate execution of the current statement or statements.
	Restore Default Layout	Restore default positions of visual elements in the tool window.

Context menu

Data sources

Icon	Action and shortcut	Description
	Jump to Query Console `Control+Shift+F10`	Open the Query Consoles popup. In the Query Consoles popup, you can select a query console that you want to open in the editor.
	Deactivate `Control+F2`	Close the database connection for the selected data source or data sources. (The data sources with connected sessions are indicated with a green dot in the corner of their icon.)
	Close All Sessions	Close all opened sessions to a data source.
	Open in New Tab	Move the selected items to a separate tab.
	Open Each in New Tab	Split the selected items into separate tabs.
	Open Each Type in New Tab	Create separate tabs for each type of service.
	Delete `Delete`	Close all opened sessions to a data source. Identical to Close All Sessions.

Sessions

Icon	Action and shortcut	Description
`Tx`	Transaction Mode and Transaction Isolation	Select the isolation level for database transactions and the way the transactions are committed. Auto: the current transaction is committed automatically when you submit your local changes to the database server. Manual: the changes submitted to the database server are accumulated in a transaction that can either be committed or rolled back explicitly by means of the Submit and Commit () or Roll Back () buttons on the toolbar. For more information about database transaction modes and isolation, refer to Submit changes to a database.
	Commit	Commit the current transaction. This button is available only for the manual transaction mode. See also, transaction mode and isolation.
	Roll back	Roll back changes. This button is available only for the manual transaction mode. See also, transaction modes and isolation.
	Cancel Running Statements `Control+F2`	Terminate execution of the current statement or statements.
	Restore Default Layout	Restore default positions of visual elements in the tool window.
	Rename Session `Shift+F6`	Display the Rename Session '<session_name>' dialog where you can specify a name for a session.
	Close Session	Close the selected session.
	Open in New Tab	Move the selected items to a separate tab.
	Open Each in New Tab	Split the selected items into separate tabs.
	Open Each Type in New Tab	Create separate tabs for each type of service.
	Delete `Delete`	Close all opened sessions to a data source. Identical to Close All Sessions.

SQL files

Icon	Action and shortcut	Description
`Tx`	Transaction Mode and Transaction Isolation	Select the isolation level for database transactions and the way the transactions are committed. Auto: the current transaction is committed automatically when you submit your local changes to the database server. Manual: the changes submitted to the database server are accumulated in a transaction that can either be committed or rolled back explicitly by means of the Submit and Commit () or Roll Back () buttons on the toolbar. For more information about database transaction modes and isolation, refer to Submit changes to a database.
	Commit	Commit the current transaction. This button is available only for the manual transaction mode. See also, transaction mode and isolation.
	Roll back	Roll back changes. This button is available only for the manual transaction mode. See also, transaction modes and isolation.
	Cancel Running Statements `Control+F2`	Terminate execution of the current statement or statements.
	Restore Default Layout	Restore default positions of visual elements in the tool window.
	Attach Session	Attach the selected file to one of the available sessions. To detach the file from a session, open the file in the editor, click the <session> list and select Detach Session.
	Open in New Tab	Move the selected items to a separate tab.
	Open Each in New Tab	Split the selected items into separate tabs.
	Open Each Type in New Tab	Create separate tabs for each type of service.
	Delete `Delete`	Close all opened sessions to a data source. Identical to Close All Sessions.
	Jump to Source `F4`	Open the file in the editor.

Docker

This type of service is available if you have configured connection settings for at least one Docker instance. For more information, refer to Connect to the Docker daemon.

Add a Docker connection

Click and select Docker Connection.
Configure the docker connection settings in the New Docker Connection dialog.

Main Docker node

These are the main actions for working with the selected Docker connection:

Icon	Action	Description
	Connect	Connect to the Docker daemon and list all available images and containers.
	Disconnect	Disconnect from the Docker daemon.
	Edit Configuration	Edit the Docker connection settings.
	Deploy	Select an existing Docker run configuration or create a new one. For more information, refer to Docker containers
	Delete Connections	Delete the connection to the selected Docker daemon.
	Pull Image…	Pull an image from a Docker registry. For more information, refer to Pull a public image from Docker Hub.
	Clean Up	Remove all stopped containers, unused volumes and networks, dangling images, and all build caches.

Containers

This node lists all containers managed by the corresponding Docker daemon.

Icon	Action	Description
	Clean Up	Remove all stopped containers.

When you select a container, the following actions are available:

Icon	Action	Description
	Start Container	Run the selected container.
	Stop Container	Stop the selected container.
	Delete Container	Delete the selected container.

Container dashboard

The Dashboard tab provides important information about the selected container:

Name and hash ID of the container. You can click the image name to highlight the image that was used to run the selected container.
Names and values of environment variables defined in the container.
Ports mappings between the container and the host.
Volume bindings between the container and the host.

Click Add to add a new variable, port binding, or volume binding, and recreate the container.

Click to open a menu with some additional actions:

Action	Description
Show Log	Open a tab with the log messages from the container's standard output streams: `STDOUT` and `STDERR`. For more information, refer to the docker logs command reference.
Show Files	Open a tab with the file browser for the running container. Select any file and click to open it remotely in the editor or click to create a copy of the file as a scratch. The file browser may not work by default for containers that don't have the full `ls` package (for example, images that are based on Alpine, Photon, and BusyBox). To use it, you can add the following command in the Dockerfile: FROM alpine:3.10 RUN apk add coreutils FROM photon:3.0 RUN echo y \| tdnf remove toybox
Inspect	Run `docker inspect` on the container and output it to a separate tab.
Copy Image ID	Copy the hash ID of the image used to run this container.
Copy Container ID	Copy the hash ID of the container.

Images

This node lists all images managed by the corresponding Docker daemon.

Icon	Action	Description
	Pull Image…	Pull an image from a Docker registry. For more information, refer to Pull a public image from Docker Hub.
	Clean Up	Remove all unused images.

When you select an image, the following actions are available:

Icon	Action	Description
	Create Container	Create a Docker container from the selected image.
	Delete Image	Remove the selected image.
	Copy Docker Image	Copy an image from one Docker daemon to another. For more information, refer to Copy image to another Docker daemon.
	Push Image…	Push an image to a Docker registry. For more information, refer to Push an image to a Docker registry.

Image dashboard

The Dashboard tab provides important information about the selected image:

Name, hash ID, date of latest changes, and size of the image.
List of tags that point to the image.
List of existing containers created from this image.

It also includes some useful actions for the selected image:

Action	Description
Create Container	Create a Docker container from the selected image.
Push Image	Push an image to a Docker registry. For more information, refer to Push an image to a Docker registry.
Show Layers	Open a tab that shows the layers (intermediate internal untagged images) from which the selected image consists.

Click to open a menu with some additional actions:

Action	Description
Copy Image ID	Copy the hash ID of the selected image.
Inspect	Run `docker inspect` on the selected image and output it to a separate tab.
Show Labels	Open a tab with the image's labels.

Networks

This node lists all networks managed by the corresponding Docker daemon.

Icon	Action	Description
	Create Network	Create a Docker network for your containers to operate.
	Clean Up	Remove all unused networks.

Network dashboard

The Dashboard tab provides important information about the selected network:

Name and hash ID of the network.
List of containers connected to this network.
List of labels assigned to this network.

Click Inspect to run docker inspect on the selected network and output it to a separate tab.

Volumes

This node lists all volumes managed by the corresponding Docker daemon.

Icon	Action	Description
	Create Volume	Create a Docker volume for your containers to use.
	Clean Up	Remove all unused volumes.

When you select a volume, the following actions are available:

Icon	Action	Description
	Delete Volume	Remove the selected volume.

Volume dashboard

The Dashboard tab provides important information about the selected volume:

Name or hash ID of the volume.
List of containers that use this volume.

It also includes some useful actions for the selected volume:

Action	Description
Inspect	Run `docker inspect` on the selected image and output it to a separate tab.
Remove	Remove the selected volume.

Click to open a menu with some additional actions:

Action	Description
Show Labels	Open a tab with the volume's labels.

Main Docker Compose node

Icon	Action	Description
	Deploy	Deploy your selected Docker Compose services using the associated run/debug configuration. For more information, refer to Docker Compose
	Stop	Stop all containers in the selected Docker Compose services.
	Down	Stop and remove all containers in the selected Docker Compose services, including all related networks, volumes, and images.
	Edit Configuration	Edit the selected Docker Compose run configuration.
	Filter	Choose whether you want to show or hide containers that are not running and images with no tags.

Docker Compose services

Icon	Action	Description
	Start	Start all containers for the selected service.
	Stop	Stop all containers for the selected service.
	Scale	Change the number of containers for the selected service.
	Delete Container	Delete the selected container.
	Filter	Choose whether you want to show or hide containers that are not running and images with no tags.

Kubernetes

This type of service is available if:

The Kubernetes plugin is installed and enabled. For more information about the Kubernetes integration in IntelliJ IDEA, refer to Kubernetes.
IntelliJ IDEA detects a Kubernetes cluster configuration file. By default, this is a file named config in the $HOME/.kube directory. You can specify other kubeconfig files by setting the KUBECONFIG environment variable. For more information about kubeconfig files, refer to Organizing Cluster Access Using kubeconfig Files.

The Kubernetes node in the Services tool window lists the resources of the Kubernetes cluster in the selected context.

For more information, refer to Configure Access to Multiple Clusters.

Icon	Action	Description
	Refresh	Refresh information from the Kubernetes cluster.
	Namespace	Select a namespace to filter the listed resources of the cluster.
	Context	Select the Kubernetes context displayed in the Services tool window. This does not change the context of the running Kubernetes cluster.
	Refresh Configuration	Read the Kubernetes cluster configuration from the `kubeconfig` file.
	Show Settings	Open the Kubernetes cluster settings where you can change the path to the `kubeconfig` file. You can select the Set this path only for the current project checkbox on the settings page to use different configuration files in different projects.
	View YAML	In the opened file, the following actions are available: apply changes to the current context and namespace. delete the resource from the current context and namespace. reload the file content from the cluster show the differences between the opened file and the corresponding cluster resource in the diff viewer.
	Describe Resource	Display detailed information about the selected resource, similarly to the `kubectl describe` command.
	Delete Resource	Remove the selected resource from the cluster.
	Follow Log	Output the log of a container in the selected pod.
	Download Log	Save the log of a container in the selected pod to a scratch file and open it in the editor. Instead of using a scratch file, you can set the path for saving logs or choose the location every time. To configure the download location for pod logs, click or open Settings \| Build, Execution, Deployment \| Kubernetes.
	Open Console	Attach to the console of the process running inside a container of the selected pod.
	Run Shell	Run an interactive shell for the container in the selected pod. By default, IntelliJ IDEA runs `/bin/bash`. To run a different shell, click or open Settings \| Build, Execution, Deployment \| Kubernetes and specify the shell that your pods use.
	Forward Ports	Forward one or more local ports to remote ports in a pod. For example: `7070` — listen on local port 7070 and forward data to/from remote port 7070. `:8080` — listen on a random local port and forward data to/from remote port 8080. `8888:5000` — listen on local port 8888 and forward data to/from remote port 5000. Fore more examples on port forwarding, refer to the Kubernetes documentation.

Productivity tips

Use tabs

The Services tool window can include a lot of services, which you can group according to their type or create separate tabs for your own custom grouping. For example, you can create a tab that will include the following: the run configuration for the application that you are developing, the Docker container that runs the database used as a backend for your application, and a console for accessing the database.

Hide the services tree

Click in the right part of the Services tool window toolbar and then click Show Services Tree to remove the checkbox. You can also press Control+Shift+T to toggle the services tree.

If you hide the services tree, it is replaced by a services navigation bar. Press Alt+Home to focus the services navigation bar.

Hide, remove, and delete services

Right-click any service and select Delete Delete to completely remove the corresponding run configuration, cloud provider, Docker connection, and so on.

If you don't want to show run/debug configurations of a certain type in the Services tool window, right-click the corresponding configuration and select Remove Configuration Type from Services. This will not remove the actual configuration.

To hide a specific run configuration from the Services tool window, right-click the corresponding configuration and select Hide Configuration. To see all hidden run configurations, click and select Restore Hidden Configurations.

Last modified: 23 October 2023