Sysdig is an awesome tool that can be used for many purposes, including monitoring, logging, process debugging, network analyzing, and exploring a system in depth. Plus, it includes fantastic Linux container support. It's also scriptable and can be fed with recorded real traffic packet captures for offline analysis. It's an incredible tool that each and every person working with containers should at least know the basics of, and as infrastructure developers used to working with code, we know how important debugging tools are. This is no different with sysdig, and we'll now discover some of its fantastic features related to containers.
To step through this recipe, you will need:
A working Docker installation
Sysdig installed and running on the host
Installing sysdig is easy on most platforms, including CoreOS (http://www.sysdig.org/install/). However, if you're in a hurry, here's a one liner that will do the job of installing Sysdig...