Container Exporter Prometheus

Collect docker metrics with prometheus estimated reading time.

Container exporter prometheus. You can configure docker as a prometheus target. Prometheus exporter exposing container metrics. It stands for container advisor and used to aggregate and process all the metrics for the running containers. Create a local multi container docker compose installation that includes containers running prometheus cadvisor and a redis server respectively.

Given a docker installation with default configuration listening on unix pipe. This app exports metrics about a docker installation and any running containers to the prometheus metrics and monitoring system. Its captures all the linux hardware and kernel related metrics. To run the exporter as a system service daemon configure the init system of your linux server such as systemd or upstart accordingly.

The container exporter requests a list of containers running on the host by talking to a container manager. Cadvisor short for container advisor analyzes and exposes resource usage and performance data from running containers. Exports metrics from memcached servers for consumption by prometheus. The exporter default port wiki page has become another catalog of exporters and may include exporters not listed here due to overlapping functionality or still being in development.

Node exporter can be run as a docker container while reporting stats for the host system. Usage command line arguments usage of nginx prometheus exporter. The actual custom prometheus exporter provides its own endpoints. The prometheus node exporter has wide varieties of server metrics.

Cadvisor exposes prometheus metrics out of the box in this guide we will. The node exporter exposes the prometheus metrics of the host machine in which it is running and shows the machine s file system networking devices processor memory usages and others features as well. By default the custom prometheus exporter listens on port 9530 but it can be changed using the p command line parameter. Main custom prometheus exporter endpoints.

Nginx plus start the exporter. It then gathers various container metrics by using libcontainer and dockerclient and then. Examine some container metrics produced by the redis. 8 minutes prometheus is an open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.

This topic shows you how to configure docker set up prometheus to run as a docker container and monitor your docker instance using prometheus. Right now docker as container manager is supported. Alternatively you can run the exporter in a docker container.