Monitoring Docker - Metrics and Log Forwarding
Overview
Details
Application features:
- Overview of hosts/containers/processes;
- Diagnostics capabilities (limits, requests, security review);
Logs:
- Container logs enriched with Docker metadata;
- Host logs;
- Multi-line logs;
- Flexible field extraction;
- At least once logs delivery duarantee;
Metrics:
- Metrics are correlated with Logs;
- Host/container/process metrics delivery;
Easy to deploy solution.
Application requires Collector built by Outcold Solutions, see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-docker/
Application is provided under Evaluation License.
Application features:
- Overview of hosts/containers/processes;
- Diagnostics capabilities (limits, requests, security review);
Logs:
- Container logs enriched with Docker metadata;
- Application logs
- Host logs;
- Multi-line logs;
- Flexible field extraction;
- At least once logs delivery duarantee;
Metrics:
- Metrics are correlated with Logs;
- Host/container/process metrics delivery;
- Prometheus metrics;
Easy to deploy solution.
Application requires Collector built by Outcold Solutions, see documentation
Application is provided under Evaluation License.
Release Notes
Version 5.2.176
5.2 - 2018-10-15
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Requires collectorfordocker version 5.2 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
- New: Review/Storage dashboard based on storage metrics.
- New: predefined alerts to help you monitor the health of the clusters and performance of the applications.
- Fixed: Performance improvements
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For details https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-docker/release-history/
Version 5.1.175
- New: Network metrics (MB, Packets, Drops, and Errors) for host and containers.
- New: Network socket tables (list of the port that containers and hosts are listening on, connections to external resources).
- New: Network review dashboard to see the list of connection to public services and in private network.
- Improvement: Replace python-based lookup with a macro written with eval.
- Improvement: Visual improvement for showing when the object was Last Seen (highlighting and showing minutes ago).
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For details:
https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-docker/release-history/
Version 5.0.174
Highlights:
- Support for Application logs
- Show Memory and CPU limits for container lists.
- Visual updates for the panels, highlighting high CPU and Memory usages
For more details
https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-docker/release-history/
Version 3.0.22
New security dashboard, CPU Shares, Quotas and Memory Limits monitoring.
A lot of of bug fixes and performance improvements.
Relese Notes: https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-docker/release-history/#30-2018-02-07
Upgrade instructions: https://www.outcoldsolutions.com/docs/monitoring-docker/upgrade-2-to-3/
Requires collectorfordocker version 3.0 or above (see https://www.outcoldsolutions.com for latest configuration)
Version 2.1.21
2.1.21 - 2018-01-02
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Requires collectorfordocker version 2.1.59.171209 or above
- Updated author and description
2.1.18 - 2017-12-09
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- Implemented collectors dashboard to track number of collectors, their versions
and used licenses.
- Fallback to the process IO statistics when blkio is not available.
- Fix IO statistic graphs, showed average, when sum should be used.
- [collector] Improved resistance for storage failures.
- [collector] License checks reporting.
Version 2.1.18
2.1.18 - 2017-12-09
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Requires collectorfordocker version 2.1.59.171209 or above
- Implemented collectors dashboard to track number of collectors, their versions
and used licenses.
- Fallback to the process IO statistics when blkio is not available.
- Fix IO statistic graphs, showed average, when sum should be used.
- [collector] Improved resistance for storage failures.
- [collector] License checks reporting.
Version 2.0.17
2.0 - 2017-10-22
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Requires collectorfordocker version 2.0.37.171023 or above
- Better labels support in Dashboards.
Collector has a breaking feature, replacing format for labels from
`docker_labels_LABEL1=VALUE1` to `docker_labels=[LABEL1=VALUE1,LABEL2=VALUE2]`.
- Process level metrics.
- Uptime for hosts and processes.
- Fields extraction and support in dashboards for docker daemon (setup
host logs collection with collector).
- New top-like dashboards allow to monitor Hosts/Containers/Processes in realtime.
- Improved dashboards navigation.
- Other bugs and improvements based on user feedback.
Version 1.0.3
Updated links to official documentation on how to install collector.
Version 1.0.1
- App Certification
- Fix layout, time/period synchronization between stat graphs
Version 1.0
Initial release
Docker logs, metrics and events in one place