A Zabbix active agent2 template for monitoring containers and container logs

The problem Zabbix (up to v7.2) doesn't seem to be able to monitor the Docker engine and containers in active mode, nor can it collected container logs, which is surprising, since it collects a wide range of container-, image- and runtime engine metrics in passive mode. The solution is a custom agent2 (I'll refer to … Continue reading A Zabbix active agent2 template for monitoring containers and container logs

Monitoring for the private Docker cloud project

A few days ago I blogged about my holiday project (Building a private cloud with Docker [1]) which is just a proof of concept as it lacks important features. One of them is monitoring which is a tough topic in cluster environments. There are a few open source, free to use monitoring solutions for Docker … Continue reading Monitoring for the private Docker cloud project