flexera-public/collectd-container

Run collectd in a container to monitor the host, support CoreOS

Collectd Container

This repo contains the pieces necessary to build a docker image with collectd that can be used to monitor the host on which the container is running and send the stats to another "sibling" container running RightLink 10 for submission to TSS.

How it works

• collectd runs in a debian container which needs to have all the appropriate shared libraries to support the various plugins
• the container needs to have /proc mounted on /host/proc in order to expose the hosts' stats to collectd (additional such mounts are probably necessary but not worked out yet)
• collectd is intended to be configured to push stats to RightLink, which runs in a separate container, this is achieved by having RL listen on a port on the host's interface on the docker network bridge (typically 172.17.42.1:88). This allows collectd to send stats to that IP address and never have the IP address change (which collectd doesn't deal well with)