[lxc-users] cpu, memory and IO statistics measuring from inside a container

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 13 16:47:42 UTC 2014


Quoting Flo (florian.engelmann at gmail.com):
> Hi,
> 
> is there any way to measure statistics regarding cpu usage (load and
> utilization) memory usage and block IO from inside a container? I was
> not able to manage this topic. Is it possible to mount
> /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct/lxc/<containername> to some place inside the

Sure.  For one thing you can just do

lxc.mount.auto = cgroup:mixed

to get the full cgroup trees  mounted inside the container.

> container??? Are there any collectd, statsd or Nagios plugins to get
> some statistics?

Not yet that I know of.  Please let us know if you write some.

> Thank you for any help!
> 
> Regards,
> Flo

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