mcanueste/dockerized-netdata

Dockerized Netdata configuration for monitoring self hosted servers and the docker containers.

Dockerized Netdata

This repository contains the configuration files for running the Netdata monitoring tool in a docker container.

In order to enable docker container resource usage monitoring, we need to pass the docker group id to the container.

The docker group id can be fetched using the following command

grep docker /etc/group | cut -d ":" -f 3

This id needs to be passed as an environment variable in the docker-compose.yml file with the PGID key.

This repository also provides a makefile for automating this process, which fetches the docker group id, and passes it as an environment variable to the netdata container.

In order to start the netdata container with the docker group id, run the following command

make run

Opening the monitoring interface

Since this container is not accessible publicly with this configuration, you can only view the monitoring interface via port forwarding.

You need to run the following command, which forwards the 19999 port of the server you are running the netdata container on to your localhost.

ssh -NL 19999:localhost:19999 USER@SERVER_ADDRESS

where

• USER is your username on the server
• SERVER_ADDRESS is the ip address or the domain name of the server.

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