process-exporter
Prometheus exporter that mines /proc to report on selected processes (by ncabatoff)
cadvisor
Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. (by google)
| process-exporter | cadvisor | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 44 | |
| 1,570 | 16,323 | |
| - | 0.7% | |
| 5.4 | 8.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | 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.
process-exporter
Posts with mentions or reviews of process-exporter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
-
Looking for an open source monitoring solution that will capture specific process info
OP is specifically asking about MacOS, but for *nix use-cases, there's the process_exporter that works to expose process level statistics. https://github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter
- Monitor the highest CPU consuming process in prometheus
-
Linux process monitoring solutions
However, the process_exporter is useful for some situations where software has complex subprocess management and you want to track based on the cmdline running. For example all of the various PostgreSQL worker processes.
- Anyone using Process Exporter? How is your prometheus yml file configure for it?
-
Anyone using Process Exporter?
yes. The config options are different though. Just see the README https://github.com/ncabatoff/process-exporter
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.
-
List of your reverse proxied services
cAdvisor
-
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.
-
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"
-
Prometheus JMX Exporter for Java17
For CPU and memory metrics, you can use cAdvisor to collect container level data.
-
Docker Monitoring Solution?
Perhaps https://github.com/google/cadvisor + prometheus (or influx or whatever else) + grafana?
- How to monitor container exit codes?
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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