Is there a way to run a cAdvisor container in a Monitoring server and monitor docker containers in a separate server? Is there a command I can include when running cAdvisor?
Because I want to be able to monitor containers in a separate server but I’m not sure how to achieve that…
Any suggestions or shared knowledge would be very helpful. Thank you.
To take measurements from different machines, you will have to deploy cAdvisor to every separate server.
My source is:
A monitoring solution for Docker hosts, containers and containerized services
Extending the monitoring system
Dockprom Grafana dashboards can be easily extended to cover more then one Docker host. In order to monitor more hosts, all you need to do is to deploy a node-exporter and a cAdvisor container on each host and point the Prometheus server to scrape those.
On how to create and start a container by using the remote api, you can check this answer: How to use docker remote api to create container?
