Monitoring

Get Alerts, When Containers Run Into Issues

Posted by DennyZhang

I’m running docker containers for all side projects. Usually one single container. Sometimes multiple containers started by docker-compose[1].

If containers get issues, I want to get alerts.
What a typical monitoring requirement! But if you do some research, you will find the information is just overwhelming. cAdvisor, Prometheus, InfluxDB, etc. Excuse me? Can’t we have a simple solution for this simple requirement? Here is my answer. Try it and discuss with me.

Get Alerts, When Containers Run Into Issues

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Monitor Out-Of-Memory Errors In Your Servers

Posted by DennyZhang

As DevOps/Ops, you maintain DB instances or RAM intensive services. You see OOM issues occasionally, don’t you? Yes, the scary Out-Of-Memory issues.

Nobody enjoys OOM issues. When it does happen, what should be checked? More importantly, how to monitor OOM issues? And get alerts, before it actually happens.

Here are some of my thoughts. Take a look and discuss with me!

Monitor Out-Of-Memory Errors In Your Servers

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