README
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cAdvisor
cAdvisor (Container Advisor) provides container users an understanding of the resource usage and performance characteristics of their running containers. It is a running daemon that collects, aggregates, processes, and exports information about running containers. Specifically, for each container it keeps resource isolation parameters, historical resource usage, histograms of complete historical resource usage and network statistics. This data is exported by container and machine-wide.
cAdvisor has native support for Docker containers and should support just about any other container type out of the box. We strive for support across the board so feel free to open an issue if that is not the case. cAdvisor's container abstraction is based on lmctfy's so containers are inherently nested hierarchically.
Quick Start: Running cAdvisor in a Docker Container
To quickly tryout cAdvisor on your machine with Docker, we have a Docker image that includes everything you need to get started. You can run a single cAdvisor to monitor the whole machine. Simply run:
sudo docker run \
--volume=/:/rootfs:ro \
--volume=/var/run:/var/run:rw \
--volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
--volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro \
--publish=8080:8080 \
--detach=true \
--name=cadvisor \
google/cadvisor:latest
cAdvisor is now running (in the background) on http://localhost:8080. The setup includes directories with Docker state cAdvisor needs to observe.
Note: If you're running on CentOS, Fedora, RHEL, or are using LXC take a look at our running instructions.
We have detailed instructions on running cAdvisor standalone outside of Docker. cAdvisor running options may also be interesting for advanced usecases. If you want to build your own cAdvisor Docker image see our deployment page.
Building and Testing
See the more detailed instructions in the build page. This includes instructions for building and deploying the cAdvisor Docker image.
Exporting stats
cAdvisor supports exporting stats to various storage plugins. See the documentation for more details and examples.
Web UI
cAdvisor exposes a web UI at its port:
http://<hostname>:<port>/
See the documentation for more details.
Remote REST API & Clients
cAdvisor exposes its raw and processed stats via a versioned remote REST API. See the API's documentation for more information.
There is also an official Go client implementation in the client directory. See the documentation for more information.
Roadmap
cAdvisor aims to improve the resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. Today, we gather and expose this information to users. In our roadmap:
- Advise on the performance of a container (e.g.: when it is being negatively affected by another, when it is not receiving the resources it requires, etc)
- Auto-tune the performance of the container based on previous advise.
- Provide usage prediction to cluster schedulers and orchestration layers.
Community
Contributions, questions, and comments are all welcomed and encouraged! cAdvisor developers hang out on Slack in the #sig-node channel (get an invitation here). We also have the google-containers Google Groups mailing list.
Documentation
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Source Files
Directories
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Package api provides a handler for /api/
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Package api provides a handler for /api/ |
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This is an implementation of a cAdvisor REST API in Go.
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This is an implementation of a cAdvisor REST API in Go. |
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v2
Client library to programmatically access cAdvisor API.
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Client library to programmatically access cAdvisor API. |
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Package container defines types for sub-container events and also defines an interface for container operation handlers.
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Package container defines types for sub-container events and also defines an interface for container operation handlers. |
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common
Unmarshal's a Containers description json file.
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Unmarshal's a Containers description json file. |
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docker
Provides global docker information.
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Provides global docker information. |
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raw
Handler for "raw" containers.
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Handler for "raw" containers. |
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rkt
Handler for "rkt" containers.
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Handler for "rkt" containers. |
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Provides Filesystem Stats
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Provides Filesystem Stats |
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info
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v1
Types used for docker containers.
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Types used for docker containers. |
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integration
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The machine package contains functions that extract machine-level specs.
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The machine package contains functions that extract machine-level specs. |
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Manager of cAdvisor-monitored containers.
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Manager of cAdvisor-monitored containers. |
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watcher
Package container defines types for sub-container events and also defines an interface for container operation handlers.
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Package container defines types for sub-container events and also defines an interface for container operation handlers. |
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watcher/raw
Package container defines types for sub-container events and also defines an interface for container operation handlers.
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Package container defines types for sub-container events and also defines an interface for container operation handlers. |
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watcher/rkt
Package rkt implements the watcher interface for rkt
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Package rkt implements the watcher interface for rkt |
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Page for /containers/
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Page for /containers/ |
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Maintains the summary of aggregated minute, hour, and day stats.
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Maintains the summary of aggregated minute, hour, and day stats. |
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procfs
procfs contains several low level functions to read information from /proc filesystem, and also provides some utility functions like JiffiesToDuration.
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procfs contains several low level functions to read information from /proc filesystem, and also provides some utility functions like JiffiesToDuration. |
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tail
Package tail implements "tail -F" functionality following rotated logs
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Package tail implements "tail -F" functionality following rotated logs |