creativearea/collectd repository overview

⁠Collectd with Docker

Collectd container with docker-collectd-plugin⁠.

This uses the Docker API to report stats for each container on the host.

The following container stats are reported:

• Network bandwidth
• Memory usage
• CPU usage
• Block IO

The name of the container is used for the plugin_instance dimension.

In this setup, Collectd is configured to send data to a Logstash instance.

⁠Usage

sudo docker run \
  --volume=/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  --detach=true \
  --name=collectd \
  --env LOGSTASH_SERVER=[CUSTOM_IP] \
  --env LOGSTASH_PORT=25826 \
  creativearea/collectd