bthuringer
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Alert on memory inside of a container
So what is the "Best Practice" way to alert on memory usage inside of a docker container? I want to wrap an alert around something like cpu_percent_total but am not seeing a similar beast for memory. So next I am tempted to create a complex data point myself, but I found this post: /topic/270-standard-percent-used-datapoints-for-graphs-mem-and-cpu/ that gives a formula to create my datapoint but also implies that it is of little value and that I should be alerting on swap usage to see issues with memory, but there is no swap datapoint in the Docker_Containers_cAdvisor20 DataSource. So I toss this debate to the crowd... Oh, Oracle of LogicMonitor, I beg your blessings in the form of sound advice on monitoring memory usage inside of a containerized environment that does not use any orchestration tools, and go...2Views0likes1Comment