Docker Container Monitoring

Monitor realtime and historical memory, cpu, and network usage of running Docker containers, and share the dashboards with your team.

Run cAdvisor with InfluxDB and Grafana

Launch the cAdvisor monitoring service with an InfluxDB storage backend and Grafana web-based dashboard with a simple command. Everything runs in Docker containers, so you don't need to install anything.

docker-compose.yml is a Docker Compose definition that starts the three services in containers and wires them together for you.

Read docker-compose.README.md for details.

Connect Grafana to InfluxDB & Share Team Dashboards

Once cAdvisor is writing to InfluxDB, you'll need to configure Grafana to connect to InfluxDB, then load up your team's shared Dashboards.

grafana-influxdb.sh ensures that an InfluxDB database and user exists, that Grafana has a data store that points to it, and any dashboards that you point to are created in Grafana.

Read grafana-influxdb.README.md for details.

Try It Out!

Try out the "Container Activity" dashboard, which shows the CPU, memory, and network activity for all of your Docker containers.

1. Start your monitoring Docker cluster. The first time you run this might take a little while, since Composer will need to download Docker images from the Docker Hub:

    docker-composer up
   

2. Wait 10 seconds, so the services have time to start.

3. Run this command, which will set up Grafana to talk with InfluxDB, and import the Container Activity dashboard into Grafana:

    ./grafana-influxdb.sh cadvisor ./dashboards/*.json
   

4. View your new Grafana dashboard at http://localhost:3000.

   

5. View your new cAdvisor realtime performance monitoring dashboard at http://localhost:9090.

   

6. Query for specific metrics using your new InfluxDB instance at http://localhost:8083.