LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ContainerCon NA 2015

Moving to containers presents new challenges in monitoring and introspection of applications. Application monitoring needs to be separated from underlying infrastructure. Applications composed from different container images shouldn't have to generate metrics for every possible combination of layers.

Making monitoring metadata a part of the container config can help in setting up monitoring without worrying about the underlying hosts. Container image composition patterns can be used to generate meaningful metrics that include details from all layers.

In this presentation, Rohit Jnagal will provide an overview of current monitoring tools and demonstrate custom introspection and monitoring support in cAdvisor using metadata from container runtimes. The second half of the presentation will demonstrate various options to generate cluster-wide monitoring and introspection dashboards.