Presentation about Docker Monitoring at Google Developer Group Zürich by Brian Christner, Swisscom.

1. Brian Christner
Swisscom Cloud Advocate
August 2015

2. About Me
> I'm the Swiss Army knife of cloud computing specializing in Linux,
Docker, IaaS, PaaS, or anything with a .io domain name
> Brianchristner.io
> Twitter - @idomyowntricks
> Github - vegasbrianc
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3. Swisscom Cloud
Enterprise – Service – Application
Enterprise Cloud Service Cloud Application Cloud
Cloud Foundry
Openstack (Elastic)VMware (Dynamic)
Hardware / Network Abstraction
Hardware / Network
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5. Docker Monitoring Best Practices
>Label your Containers (key value pair)
--label environment="production"
>Set Resource Limits
>Don’t overlert yourself
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Docker Stats
STATS DATA:
/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu
* /memory
* /blkio
Usage: docker stats CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]
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7. Docker Stats Overview
>Great for Troubleshooting
>Docker Stats API – Build tools that feed
container resource information into your
existing monitoring solutions
>Docker Stats API is the basis all other tools
use.
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https://github.com/google/cadvisor
https://hub.docker.com/r/google/cadvisor
(Container Advisor)
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>cAdvisor – Collects, aggregates, processes,
and exports information about running
containers
>InfluxDB – Time Series Data Bases stores all
the metrics
>Grafana – Metrics Dashboard
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10. cAdvisor Compose File
> https://github.com/vegasbrianc/docker-monitoring
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Components
• Prometheus Server
• Data Exporter
• Prometheus Dashboard
• Alerting

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https://github.com/vegasbrianc/promethe
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13. Docker Monitoring Resources
> Great Docker Resource - https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-
docker#monitoring
> Prometheues – Prometheus.io
> My Docker Projects - https://github.com/vegasbrianc
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