Docker collector
Docker Engine is an open source containerization technology for building and
containerizing your applications.
This module monitors one or more Docker Engine instances, depending on your configuration.
Metrics
- All metrics have "docker." prefix.
- container_writeable_layer_size needs
collect_container_size: yes
. Enabling this may result in high CPU usage
depending on the version of Docker Engine.
Labels per scope:
- global: no labels.
- container: container_name, image.
Metric |
Scope |
Dimensions |
Units |
containers_state |
global |
running, paused, stopped |
containers |
containers_health_status |
global |
healthy, unhealthy, starting, no_healthcheck |
containers |
images |
global |
active, dangling |
images |
images_size |
global |
size |
bytes |
container_state |
container |
running, paused, exited, created, restarting, removing, dead |
state |
container_health_status |
container |
healthy, unhealthy, starting, no_healthcheck |
status |
container_writeable_layer_size |
container |
writeable_layer |
size |
Configuration
Edit the go.d/docker.conf
configuration file using edit-config
from the
Netdata config directory, which is typically
at /etc/netdata
.
cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory
sudo ./edit-config go.d/docker.conf
jobs:
- name: local
address: 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock'
collect_container_size: no
- name: remote
address: 'tcp://203.0.113.10:2375'
collect_container_size: no
For all available options see
module configuration file.
Troubleshooting
To troubleshoot issues with the docker
collector, run the go.d.plugin
with the debug option enabled. The output
should give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.
First, navigate to your plugins' directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
. If that's not the case on your
system, open netdata.conf
and look for the setting plugins directory
. Once you're in the plugin's directory, switch
to the netdata
user.
cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
sudo -u netdata -s
You can now run the go.d.plugin
to debug the collector:
./go.d.plugin -d -m docker