[Lxc-users] Monitoring per container

[Dwight Engen]

On Sat, 11 May 2013 13:43:56 +0700
David Parks <davidparks21 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have any pointers on how I might monitor things like CPU
> and DISK activity PER CONTAINER? (Ubuntu 12.10 server here)
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> I saw something on You Tube using RHL that demoed it beautifully, but
> I'm looking for something a bit more rudimentary, maybe that I could
> plug into Nagios or use to just see how things look under load.  
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> Running top-like utilities on the host doesn't really split it up well
> enough by container, even htop with cgroups is difficult at best. 

Hi David, not sure it will have the exact information you're looking
for, but you can check out lxc-top (part of the lua binding). It just
uses info from cgroup though, so that may not be enough for you.