Docker Log Based Metrics

The Docker input plugin you collect Docker container metrics, including memory usage and CPU consumption.

Configuration parameters

The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:

Key	Description	Default
Interval_Sec	Polling interval in seconds	1
Include	A space-separated list of containers to include.	none
Exclude	A space-separated list of containers to exclude.	none
Threaded	Indicates whether to run this input in its own thread.	false
path.containers	Used to specify the container directory if Docker is configured with a custom data-root directory.	/var/lib/docker/containers

If you set neither Include nor Exclude, the plugin will try to get metrics from all running containers.

Configuration file

The following example configuration collects metrics from two docker instances (6bab19c3a0f9 and 14159be4ca2c).

fluent-bit.yaml

pipeline:
    inputs:
        - name: docker
          include: 6bab19c3a0f9 14159be4ca2c

    outputs:
        - name: stdout
          match: '*'

fluent-bit.conf

[INPUT]
    Name         docker
    Include      6bab19c3a0f9 14159be4ca2c
[OUTPUT]
    Name   stdout
    Match  *

This configuration will produce records like the following:

[1] docker.0: [1571994772.00555745, {"id"=>"6bab19c3a0f9", "name"=>"postgresql", "cpu_used"=>172102435, "mem_used"=>5693400, "mem_limit"=>4294963200}]