Monitoring Containers

Importing the dashboards

grafana-pcp includes the following (optional) dashboards:

  • PCP Vector: Container Overview (CGroups v1)
  • PCP Vector: Container Overview (CGroups v2)

You can import the corresponding dashboard on the PCP Vector data source settings page.

Note

grafana-pcp before version 3.0.0 includes a single dashboard called PCP Vector: Container Overview which supports CGroups v1 only and is installed by default (i.e. no import is required).

Usage

You can choose one or multiple containers in the container drop-down field at the top of the dashboard:

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Common Problems

My container doesn’t show up

  • make sure that the docker and/or podman PMDAs are installed
  • currently PCP only supports containers started by the root user (there is an open feature request to change this)