Vector
Vector is an on-host performance monitoring framework which exposes hand picked high resolution metrics to every engineer’s browser. (by Netflix)
cadvisor
Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. (by google)
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| Vector | cadvisor | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 44 | |
| 3,563 | 16,323 | |
| - | 1.5% | |
| 0.2 | 8.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | 4 days ago | |
| JavaScript | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Vector
Posts with mentions or reviews of Vector.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Vector yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
cadvisor
Posts with mentions or reviews of cadvisor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
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List of your reverse proxied services
cAdvisor
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Need Recommendation: btop like web page for docker
https://github.com/google/cadvisor exports Prometheus metrics, but also offers a simple web-ui for container metrics.
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Exporters running, just not in prometheus?
version: '3' volumes: prometheus-data: driver: local grafana-data: driver: local services: prometheus: image: prom/prometheus:latest container_name: prometheus ports: - "9090:9090" volumes: - /etc/prometheus:/etc/prometheus - prometheus-data:/prometheus restart: unless-stopped command: - "--config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml" grafana: image: grafana/grafana:latest container_name: grafana ports: - "3000:3000" volumes: - grafana-data:/var/lib/grafana restart: unless-stopped node_exporter: image: quay.io/prometheus/node-exporter:latest container_name: node_exporter command: - '--path.rootfs=/host' pid: host restart: unless-stopped volumes: - '/:/host:ro,rslave' cadvisor: # TODO: latest tag is not updated, check latest release https://github.com/google/cadvisor/releases image: gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor-arm:v0.47.0 container_name: cadvisor ports: - "8080:8080" network_mode: host volumes: - /:/rootfs:ro - /var/run:/var/run:ro - /sys:/sys:ro - /var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro - /dev/disk/:/dev/disk:ro privileged: true restart: unless-stopped depends_on: - redis redis: image: redis:latest container_name: redis ports: - "6379:6379"
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Prometheus JMX Exporter for Java17
For CPU and memory metrics, you can use cAdvisor to collect container level data.
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Docker Monitoring Solution?
Perhaps https://github.com/google/cadvisor + prometheus (or influx or whatever else) + grafana?
- How to monitor container exit codes?
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Building a realtime performance monitoring system with Kafka and Go
We could have used a much more focussed tool like Prometheus or Cadvisor to gather system stats, but that is not the main objective of this article.
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Can ChatGPT Debug and Fix your Docker and Kubernetes Issues?
Result: Interestingly, the GitHub Issue that talks about cAdvisor and Docker Desktop for Mac for running cAdvisor is still open and not fixed.
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Looking for an open source monitoring solution that will capture specific process info
If you're running things under systemd, you can enable process accounting and use cAdvisor.
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How to identify docker containers names? The names do not match those in the CLI after typing "docker ps"
Check this thread if you’re having difficulties, but it might run out of the box these days: https://github.com/google/cadvisor/issues/1846
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Vector and cadvisor you can also consider the following projects:
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
node_exporter - Exporter for machine metrics
Sentry - Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
kube-state-metrics - Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Sensu
ElastiFlow - Network flow analytics (Netflow, sFlow and IPFIX) with the Elastic Stack
Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.
Performance Co-Pilot - Performance Co-Pilot
Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
PhpSysInfo - phpSysInfo: a customizable PHP script that displays information about your system nicely
prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.