monitoring-101
A journey into the monitoring world using Prometheus + Grafana on Kubernetes (by leandronsp)
cadvisor
Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. (by google)
| monitoring-101 | cadvisor | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 44 | |
| 1 | 16,379 | |
| - | 1.1% | |
| 0.0 | 8.0 | |
| 10 months ago | 9 days ago | |
| Shell | Go | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
monitoring-101
Posts with mentions or reviews of monitoring-101.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-06.
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 monitoring-101 and cadvisor you can also consider the following projects:
node_exporter - Exporter for machine metrics
kube-state-metrics - Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Netdata - The open-source observability platform everyone needs
Zabbix - Real-time monitoring of IT components and services, such as networks, servers, VMs, applications and the cloud.
Portainer - Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Healthchecks - Open-source cron job and background task monitoring service, written in Python & Django
docker-socket-proxy - Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts
Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Nagios - Nagios Core
uptime-kuma - A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
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