This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing cAdvisor on Linux Mint Latest. cAdvisor is an open-source tool that provides real-time monitoring capabilities for containerized environments. It is easy to use and provides detailed metrics for CPU, memory, network usage, and more.
Before you begin, you need the following:
cAdvisor is available as a Docker container. You can easily download the latest cAdvisor image from the Docker Hub repository by running the following command in your terminal:
$ docker pull google/cadvisor:latest
This command will download the latest cAdvisor image from the Docker Hub repository.
Once you have the cAdvisor image downloaded, you should create a configuration file to specify the parameters that cAdvisor will use to monitor your container. You can create a configuration file using your favorite text editor:
$ sudo nano /etc/cadvisor/config.yaml
Add the following content to your configuration file:
# Set the port cAdvisor will listen on
port: 8080
# Set the time interval to collect and store stats
housekeeping_interval: 10s
# Enable prometheus endpoint
prometheus_endpoint: /metrics
This configuration will set cAdvisor to listen on port 8080 and collect and store stats every 10 seconds.
Save the file and close the editor.
Now that you have downloaded the cAdvisor image and created a configuration file, you can run cAdvisor in your Docker environment:
$ sudo docker run \
--volume=/:/rootfs:ro \
--volume=/var/run:/var/run:rw \
--volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
--volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro \
--publish=8080:8080 \
--detach=true \
--name=cadvisor \
google/cadvisor:latest \
-config=/etc/cadvisor/config.yaml
This command will start a new Docker container named "cadvisor" and bind it to port 8080 in your host system. cAdvisor will use the configuration file you created in the previous step.
Once cAdvisor is running, you can access its web interface by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080. You should see the cAdvisor dashboard displaying detailed metrics for your container.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install and configure cAdvisor on a Linux Mint Latest system. cAdvisor is an essential tool for monitoring containers in real-time and provides detailed performance metrics for your containerized environment.
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