Real-Time Container Performance Monitoring with Prometheus, cAdvisor, and Grafana

Description

Built a real-time monitoring setup for Docker containers using Prometheus for metrics collection, cAdvisor as the metrics exporter, and Grafana for visualization. Designed dashboards to track CPU, memory, network, and disk usage for proactive performance analysis and quick issue detection.

Tools and Technologies

• Docker
• Prometheus
• cAdvisor
• Grafana
• Linux (Ubuntu 24.04)
• Bash Scripting

Project Walk-through

Deployed multiple Docker containers as the workload


Monitored baseline performance using the docker stats command


Set up cAdvisor to export container-level metrics


Configured Prometheus to scrape metrics from cAdvisor


Integrated Grafana to build dashboards for visualization and analysis