How to determine when LXD instance was started

Determine when LXD instance was started.

Use last_used_at key to determine when LXD instance was started.

$ lxc list --format json | \
  jq -r '.[] | select(.state.status=="Running") | "\(.name) started at \(.last_used_at)"'

adguard started at 2022-02-28T22:13:50.406329881Z
named started at 2022-02-28T22:13:52.01463686Z
unbound started at 2022-02-28T22:13:53.94193113Z

Define a variable to extract this data from specific instance.

$ lxc list --format json | \
  jq -r --arg name "adguard" '.[] | select(.state.status=="Running") | select(.name==$name) | "\(.last_used_at)"'

2022-02-28T22:13:50.406329881Z