Use this InfluxDB template to monitor Docker.
In the InfluxDB UI, go to Settings->Templates and enter this URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/docker/docker.yml
If you have your InfluxDB credentials configured in the CLI, you can install this template with:
influx apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/influxdata/community-templates/master/docker/docker.yml
- 1 Bucket:
docker
, 7d retention - Labels: Telegraf Plugin Labels
- 1 Telegraf Configuration
- 1 Dashboard:
Docker
- 1 Variable:
bucket
- 4 Alerts: Container cpu, mem, disk, non-zero exit
- 1 Notification Endpoint: Http Post
- 1 Notification Rules: Crit Alert
General instructions on using InfluxDB Templates can be found in the use a template document.
The data for the dashboard is populated by the included Telegraf configuration which includes the Docker Input. You may need to customize the input configuration, specific the endpoint
value, depending on how you are running Docker. More information can be found in the Telegraf Docker Input documentation.
The Telegraf Configuration requires the following environment variables:
INFLUX_TOKEN
- The token with the permissions to read Telegraf configs and write data to thetelegraf
bucket. You can just use your operator token to get started.INFLUX_ORG
- The name of your Organization (this will be your email address on the InfluxDB Cloud free tier)INFLUX_HOST
- The URL of your InfluxDB host (this can your localhost, a remote instance, or InfluxDB Cloud)
You MUST set these environment variables before running Telegraf using something similar to the following commands
- This can be found on the
Load Data
>Tokens
page in your browser:export INFLUX_TOKEN=TOKEN
- Your Organization name can be found on the Settings page in your browser:
export INFLUX_ORG=my_org
To get resource data from your Docker hosts, download and install Telegraf on those hosts. InfluxData provides native packages for a number of distributions as well as binaries that can be executed directly.
Start Telegraf using the instructions from the Load Data
> Telegraf
> Setup Instructions
link in the UI.
You can customize it based on your Docker installation. More information can be found in the Telegraf Docker Input documentation.
- Author: Russ Savage
- Email: [email protected]
- Github: @russorat
- Influx Slack: @russ