Docker Enterprise does a great job of walking a tightrope between providing enough essential, out-of-the-box, enterprise features, and flexibility through integration and extensibility. Monitoring is a really good example of this balancing act. You get the basic information you need for operating your Docker Enterprise cluster, but the flexibility to bring your own tools to the game. For monitoring, Docker uses an internal packing of Prometheus to provide some essential metrics through the UCP dashboard.
The following screenshot shows a metrics overview from UCP's Web UI Dashboard, where the data all comes from a Kubernetes deployment of Prometheus across the Docker Enterprise Manager Nodes:
The UCP metrics give cluster operators the ability to quickly see if there are issues...