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Monitoring DockerContainer Metrics
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Monitoring Docker Container Metrics
Containers : Containers solve a critical issue in the life of application
developer. Developers write code on the local environment.
When they are ready to move that code to production
environment this is where problems arise. The code that worked
perfectly on the testing environment doesn’t work in production.
The reasons for this are varied different operating system,
different dependencies, different ibraries.
Containers have small foot print.
When we have multiple containers we would require to monitor these containers or Infrastructure and we require an efficient monitoring solution to ensure that our application is running on containers are performing Properly and Elastic Provides us the monitoring feature.
Monitoring
Containers isolation is done at the kernel level.
Containers isolates the applications and their
dependencies from the main hardware which makes the
deployment easy.
Multiple units could share the same hardware facilities on
the same host machine and which makes cost effective.
Containers are Much more Light weight comparing to VMs.
VIRTUAL MACHINE (VM) VM
Service A Service CService B
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
Guest OS Guest OS
Hypervisor
Infrastructure
CONTAINER
Service C
Bins/Libs
CONTAINER
Service B
Bins/Libs
CONTAINER
Service A
Bins/Libs
Host OS
Docker
Infrastructure
Docker
Docker is one of the most popular Container Platform and it is
light weight as it shares the host Operating system kernel.
Metricbeat is a light weight shipper to be installed on the server
to periodically collect metrics from the hosts and service
running.
Metricsets define the data about our docker containers that we
will get back.
Metricbeat helps to collect the metrics of the services or
applications which includes Docker and Kubernetes.
Docker Module Fetches & ships metrics from Docker containers
to ES or Logstash.
Changes to be made in the metricbeat.yml file.
Monitoring Docker:
Metricbeat Docker Configuration :
1. Containers : Container metricset collects information and statistics
about running Docker Containers.
2. cpu : It Collects runtime CPU metrics.
3. diskio : It collects the disk I/O metricset.
4. healthcheck : It is available from containers where the docker health
check has been enabled.
5. image : Image metricset of the docker module.
6. Info : Info metricset collects information based on docker Remote API.
7. Memory : Memory metricset collects memory metrics.
8. hosts: The Communication between host and docker Processes through
a Socket Connection.
9. period : it is recommended to run docker metricset with a period of
more than 3 seconds to avoid timeout.
Points to note down :
A dedicated dashboard is also available for monitoring docker
metrics but we need to enable it.
Pick the metricset that are relevant to the monitoring needs.
Metricset should be strictly greater then 3 seconds.
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