We explore crazy awesome Docker dashboards for Docker container monitoring. We look at open source tools to build customized dashboards as well as a freemium cloud SaaS solution that even has a home lab license that allows you to monitor unlimited endpoints! Pretty cool! Let’s take your Docker container monitoring dashboards to the next level!
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Introduction to Docker container monitoring – 0:00
Overview of cAdvisor, Node Exporter, Prometheus, Grafana – 1:00
Building the Docker Compose file for monitoring – 2:13
Overview of the configuration – 3:26
Building the prometheus.yml file – 4:08
Running docker-compose up -d command – 5:11
Logging into Grafana and setting up connection to Prometheus – 6:22
Finding and navigating the Grafana community dashboards – 7:43
Copying the ID to a Grafana community dashboard to import – 8:55
Importing the community Grafana dashboard into Grafana – 9:10
Looking at a cAdvisor dashboard from Grafana community site – 10:07
Introduction to Netdata – 11:00
Overview of “installing” Netdata – 12:00
Looking around the Netdata dashboard metrics – 12:25
Looking at Docker container monitoring in Netdata – 13:50
Looking at the alerting with Netdata – 14:35
Searching for specific alerts to customize in Netdata – 15:20
Looking at a more detailed view of adding a node in Netdata – 16:08
Talking about default out of the box alerting with Netdata – 17:30
Netdata offers a home lab license for $90/yr – 17:52
Considering the differences between OSS and Netdata for Docker dashboards and monitoring – 18:12
Talking about using both OSS and cloud monitoring – 18:40
Wrapping up Docker container monitoring dashboards! 19:15
