Hi! i have a mixed set of containers (a few, not too many) and bare-metal services (quite a few) and i would like to monitor them.
I am using good old “monit” that monitors my network interfaces, filesystems status and traditional services (via pid files). It’s not pretty, but get the work done. It seems i cannot find a way to have it also monitor my containers. Consider that i use podman and have a strict one service, one user policy (all containers are rootless).
I also run “netdata” but i find it overwhelming, too much data, too much graphics, just too much for my needs.
I need something that:
- let me monitor service status
- let me monitor containers status
- let me restart services or containers (not mandatory, but preferred)
- has a nice web GUI
- the web gui is also mobile friendly (not mandatory, but appreciated)
- Can print some history data (not manatory, but interesting)
- Can monitor CPU usage (mandatory)
- Can monitor filesystem usage (mandatory)
I don’t care for authentication features, since it will be behind a reverse proxy with HTTPS and proxy authentication already.
I am not looking for a fancy and comples dashboard, but for something i can host on a secondary page that i open if/when i want to check stuff. Also, if the tool can be scripted or accessed via an API could be useful, so i would write some extractors to print something in a summary page in my own dashboard.
Containers run on bare metal. Or are you running them in a vm?
I run containers on bare metal indeed.
I have services running in containers on bare metal and services running without containers, on bare metal.