fail2ban-client status presents a list of all active jails (i.e. the services that are being monitored).
fail2ban-client status <service-e.g.-sshd> presents a report about what fail2ban is(was) blocking in respect to the supplied service.
Status for the jail: sshd
|- Filter
| |- Currently failed: 1
| |- Total failed: 81
| `- File list: /var/log/auth.log
`- Actions
|- Currently banned: 2
|- Total banned: 8
`- Banned IP list: 218.65.30.61 116.31.116.7