Tuesday 4 June 2019

Monitoring docker using docker cli


In this post, I am going to explain how to monitor a docker container using docker cli and an user interface.

a. Monitor using Docker cli: docket container stats
‘docker container stats’ api used to get resource usage statistics of a container.

$docker container stats --help

Usage: docker container stats [OPTIONS] [CONTAINER...]

Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics

Options:
  -a, --all             Show all containers (default shows just running)
      --format string   Pretty-print images using a Go template
      --no-stream       Disable streaming stats and only pull the first result
      --no-trunc        Do not truncate output


Let’s run wildfly container

$docker container run -d -p1234:8080 jboss/wildfly
8de8363baa48cd7f2d2406b4dae797b72abbac4c7112aa0f6e16e638822ae0f5


Execute the command 'docker container ls', you can see that the container is up and running.

$docker container ls
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES
8de8363baa48        jboss/wildfly       "/opt/jboss/wildfly/…"   41 seconds ago      Up 40 seconds       0.0.0.0:1234->8080/tcp   cranky_kowalevski

Now use 'docker container stats {container_id/container_name}' to see the container statistics.

Example
docker container stats 8de8363baa48


You can see the statistics screen like below.

CONTAINER ID        NAME                CPU %               MEM USAGE / LIMIT     MEM %               NET I/O             BLOCK I/O           PIDS
8de8363baa48        cranky_kowalevski   0.35%               309.3MiB / 1.952GiB   15.48%              1.04kB / 0B         328kB / 69.6kB      69

Press CTRL+C to exit from the statistics screen.

How to extract specific column details from statistics?
Using format string you can extract specific column details.

For example, Execute below command to get cpu percent usage of the container.
docker container stats --format "{{.Container}} : {{.CPUPerc}}" 8de8363baa48

You can even extract multiple columns information from the statistics.
For example, below command extract both cpu and memory usgae information.

docker container stats --format "{{.Container}} : {{.CPUPerc}} {{.MemUsage}}" 8de8363baa48

Below table summarize different place holders in format string.

Placeholder
Description
.Container
Container name or ID (user input)
.Name
Container name
.ID
Container ID
.CPUPerc
CPU percentage
.MemUsage
Memory usage
.NetIO
Network IO
.BlockIO
Block IO
.MemPerc
Memory percentage (Not available on Windows)
.PIDs
Number of PIDs (Not available on Windows)

Get the statistics in table format
Below snippet gets container statistics in table format.
docker container stats --format "table {{.Name}} : \t{{.CPUPerc}} \t{{.MemUsage}}" 8de8363baa48

NAME :                 CPU %               MEM USAGE / LIMIT
cranky_kowalevski :    0.40%               310.6MiB / 1.952GiB

Print statistics without streaming

If you do not want streaming of the statistics output, you can use --no-stream option.

$docker container stats --no-stream 8de8363baa48
CONTAINER ID        NAME                CPU %               MEM USAGE / LIMIT     MEM %               NET I/O             BLOCK I/O           PIDS
8de8363baa48        cranky_kowalevski   0.41%               312.2MiB / 1.952GiB   15.62%              1.39kB / 0B         328kB / 69.6kB      69

b. Getting container statistics using curl command
You can get the statistics of a container, by hitting below api.
'http://localhost/containers/{containerId or containerName}/stats'

Example

curl --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://localhost/containers/8de8363baa48/stats

$curl --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://localhost/containers/8de8363baa48/stats
{"read":"2019-04-26T05:54:29.8148362Z","preread":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","pids_stats":{"current":69},"blkio_stats":{"io_service_bytes_recursive":[{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Read","value":327680},{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Write","value":69632},{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Sync","value":0},{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Async","value":397312},{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Total","value":397312}],"io_serviced_recursive":[{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Read","value":15},{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Write","value":3},{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Sync","value":0},{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Async","value":18},{"major":8,"minor":0,"op":"Total","value":18}],"io_queue_recursive":[],"io_service_time_recursive":[],"io_wait_time_recursive":[],"io_merged_recursive":[],"io_time_recursive":[],"sectors_recursive":[]},"num_procs":0,"storage_stats":{},"cpu_stats":{"cpu_usage":{"total_usage":34034128328,"percpu_usage":[6629378428,4479924427,5938678226,6888436992,4704682180,5393028075],"usage_in_kernelmode":10310000000,"usage_in_usermode":18330000000},"system_cpu_usage":441807100000000,"online_cpus":6,"throttling_data":{"periods":0,"throttled_periods":0,"throttled_time":0}},"precpu_stats":{"cpu_usage":{"total_usage":0,"usage_in_kernelmode":0,"usage_in_usermode":0},"throttling_data":{"periods":0,"throttled_periods":0,"throttled_time":0}},"memory_stats":{"usage":328134656,"max_usage":333287424,"stats":{"active_anon":322752512,"active_file":208896,"cache":487424,"dirty":8192,"hierarchical_memory_limit":9223372036854771712,"hierarchical_memsw_limit":9223372036854771712,"inactive_anon":0,"inactive_file":278528,"mapped_file":32768,"pgfault":115607,"pgmajfault":14,"pgpgin":111944,"pgpgout":33028,"rss":322752512,"rss_huge":0,"total_active_anon":322752512,"total_active_file":208896,"total_cache":487424,"total_dirty":8192,"total_inactive_anon":0,"total_inactive_file":278528,"total_mapped_file":32768,"total_pgfault":115607,"total_pgmajfault":14,"total_pgpgin":111944,"total_pgpgout":33028,"total_rss":322752512,"total_rss_huge":0,"total_unevictable":0,"total_writeback":0,"unevictable":0,"writeback":0},"limit":2095575040},"name":"/cranky_kowalevski","id":"8de8363baa48cd7f2d2406b4dae797b72abbac4c7112aa0f6e16e638822ae0f5","networks":{"eth0":{"rx_bytes":1388,"rx_packets":18,"rx_errors":0,"rx_dropped":0,"tx_bytes":0,"tx_packets":0,"tx_errors":0,"tx_dropped":0}}}




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