Collect docker container resource usage

This is collectd plugin and docker image to collect resource usage from docker containers. Resource usage collected from docker stats API and sent to graphite installation. Containers can be added and removed on the fly, no need to restart collectd.

Configuration

This plugin treats containers as tasks that run as parts of apps.

Setting the App name of a Container

• Set the label collectd_docker_app directly on the container
• Set collectd_docker_app_label on the container that points to which actual label to use. e.g.collectd_docker_app_label=app_id will use app_id label on the container
• Set environment variable COLLECTD_DOCKER_APP on the container
• Set COLLECTD_DOCKER_APP_ENV on the container that points to which actual environment variable to use. For example, marathon sets MARATHON_APP_ID and by setting COLLECTD_DOCKER_APP_ENV to MARATHON_APP_ID you would get the marathon app id.

These keys can be changed globally by setting APP_LABEL_KEY or APP_ENV_KEY when running the collectd container. For example, if you set APP_ENV_KEY to MARATHON_APP_ID on the collectd container, then this will use MARATHON_APP_ID on all running containers.

Setting the Task name of a Container

• Set the label collectd_docker_task directly on the container
• Set collectd_docker_task_label on the container that points to which actual label to use. e.g.collectd_docker_task_label=task_id will use task_id label on the container
• Set environment variable COLLECTD_DOCKER_TASK on the container
• Set COLLECTD_DOCKER_TASK_ENV on the container that points to which actual environment variable to use. For example, mesos sets MESOS_TASK_ID and by setting COLLECTD_DOCKER_TASK_ENV to MESOS_TASK_ID you would get the mesos task id.

These keys can be changed globally by setting TASK_LABEL_KEY or TASK_ENV_KEY when running the collectd container. For example, if you set TASK_ENV_KEY to MESOS_TASK_ID on the collectd container, then this will use MESOS_TASK_ID on all running containers.

Limitations

• If a container's app name cannot be identified, it will be not monitored. So if you are not seeing metrics, then it means you must check whether the app name is configured correctly.
• The string <app>.<task> is limited by 63 characters. So it is also useful to set COLLECTD_DOCKER_APP_ENV_TRIM_PREFIX and/or COLLECTD_DOCKER_TASK_ENV_TRIM_PREFIX on the containers.

Reported metrics

Metric names look line this:

collectd.<host>.docker_stats.<app>.<task>.<type>.<metric>

Gauges:

• CPU

  • cpu.user
  • cpu.system
  • cpu.total

• Memory overview

  • memory.limit
  • memory.max
  • memory.usage

• Memory breakdown

  • memory.active_anon
  • memory.active_file
  • memory.cache
  • memory.inactive_anon
  • memory.inactive_file
  • memory.mapped_file
  • memory.pg_fault
  • memory.pg_in
  • memory.pg_out
  • memory.rss
  • memory.rss_huge
  • memory.unevictable
  • memory.writeback

• Network (bridge mode only)

  • net.rx_bytes
  • net.rx_dropped
  • net.rx_errors
  • net.rx_packets
  • net.tx_bytes
  • net.tx_dropped
  • net.tx_errors
  • net.tx_packets

Grafana dashboard

Grafana 2 dashboard is included.

Graphite metrics extracted from the dashboard

• CPU usage per second

aliasByNode(scaleToSeconds(nonNegativeDerivative(collectd.$host.docker_stats.$app.$task.gauge.cpu.total), 1), 3, 4, 1)

• Memory limit

alias(averageSeries(collectd.$host.docker_stats.$app.$task.gauge.memory.limit), 'limit')

• Memory usage

aliasByNode(collectd.$host.docker_stats.$app.$task.gauge.memory.usage, 3, 4, 1)

• Network bytes per second tx

aliasByNode(scaleToSeconds(nonNegativeDerivative(collectd.$host.docker_stats.$app.$task.gauge.net.tx_bytes), 1), 3, 4, 1, 7)

• Network bytes per second rx

aliasByNode(scaleToSeconds(nonNegativeDerivative(collectd.$host.docker_stats.$app.$task.gauge.net.rx_bytes), 1), 3, 4, 1, 7)

• Network packets per second tx

aliasByNode(scaleToSeconds(nonNegativeDerivative(collectd.$host.docker_stats.$app.$task.gauge.net.tx_packets), 1), 3, 4, 1, 7)

• Network packets per second rx

aliasByNode(scaleToSeconds(nonNegativeDerivative(collectd.$host.docker_stats.$app.$task.gauge.net.rx_packets), 1), 3, 4, 1, 7)

Running

Minimal command:

docker run -d -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    -e GRAPHITE_HOST=<graphite host> -e COLLECTD_HOST=<colllectd host> \
    bobrik/collectd-docker

Environment variables

• COLLECTD_HOST - host to use in metric name, defaults to MESOS_HOST if defined.
• COLLECTD_INTERVAL - metric update interval in seconds, defaults to 10.
• GRAPHITE_HOST - host where carbon is listening for data.
• GRAPHITE_PORT - port where carbon is listening for data, 2003 by default.
• GRAPHITE_PREFIX - prefix for metrics in graphite, collectd. by default.
• APP_LABEL_KEY - container label to use for app name, collectd_docker_app by default.
• APP_ENV_KEY - container environment variable to use for app name, COLLECTD_DOCKER_APP by default.
• TASK_LABEL_KEY - container label to use for task name, collectd_docker_task by default.
• TASK_ENV_KEY - container environment variable to use for task name, COLLECTD_DOCKER_TASK by default.

Note that this docker image is very minimal and libc inside does not support search directive in /etc/resolv.conf. You have to supply full hostname in GRAPHITE_HOST that can be resolved with nameserver.

License

MIT