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Monitoring Docker

By : Russ McKendrick
Book Image

Monitoring Docker

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

This book will show you how monitoring containers and keeping a keen eye on the working of applications helps improve the overall performance of the applications that run on Docker. With the increased adoption of Docker containers, the need to monitor which containers are running, what resources they are consuming, and how these factors affect the overall performance of the system has become the need of the moment. This book covers monitoring containers using Docker's native monitoring functions, various plugins, as well as third-party tools that help in monitoring. Well start with how to obtain detailed stats for active containers, resources consumed, and container behavior. We also show you how to use these stats to improve the overall performance of the system. Next, you will learn how to use SysDig to both view your containers performance metrics in real time and record sessions to query later. By the end of this book, you will have a complete knowledge of how to implement monitoring for your containerized applications and make the most of the metrics you are collecting
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Monitoring Docker
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. A Traditional Approach to Monitoring Containers

So far, we have looked at only a few technologies to monitor our containers, so in this chapter, we will be looking more at a traditional tool for monitoring services. By the end of this chapter, you should know your way around Zabbix and the various ways you can monitor your containers. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • How to run a Zabbix Server using containers

  • How to launch a Zabbix Server on a vagrant machine

  • How to prepare our host system for monitoring containers using the Zabbix agent

  • How to find your way around the Zabbix web interface