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Docker Containers πŸ”—

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the docker-container-stats monitor type to read container stats from a Docker API server. Note it doesn’t currently support CPU share/quota metrics.

This integration is available for Kubernetes, Linux, and Windows.

Benefits πŸ”—

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

  • View metrics. You can create your own custom dashboards, and most monitors provide built-in dashboards as well. For information about dashboards, see View dashboards in Observability Cloud.

  • View a data-driven visualization of the physical servers, virtual machines, AWS instances, and other resources in your environment that are visible to Infrastructure Monitoring. For information about navigators, see Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring navigators.

  • Access the Metric Finder and search for metrics sent by the monitor. For information, see Use the Metric Finder.

Installation πŸ”—

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

  1. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:

  2. Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.

  3. Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration πŸ”—

To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:

  1. Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.

  2. Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

If you’re using this integration with the default Docker daemon domain socket, you might need to add the splunk-otel-collector user to the docker group to have permission to access the Docker API.

usermod -aG docker splunk-otel-collector

Example πŸ”—

To activate this integration, add the following to your Collector configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/docker-container-stats:
    type: docker-container-stats
    ...  # Additional config

Next, add the monitor to the service > pipelines > metrics > receivers section of your configuration file:

service:
 pipelines:
   metrics:
     receivers: [smartagent/docker-container-stats]

Configuration settings πŸ”—

The following table shows the configuration options for this integration:

Option

Required

Type

Description

enableExtraBlockIOMetrics

no

bool

Sends all extra block IO metrics. The default value is false

enableExtraCPUMetrics

no

bool

Sends all extra CPU metrics. The default value is false

enableExtraMemoryMetrics

no

bool

Sends all extra memory metrics. The default value is false

enableExtraNetworkMetrics

no

bool

Sends all extra network metrics. The default value is false

dockerURL

no

string

The URL of the docker server. The default value is unix:///var/run/docker.sock. For Windows, set it to npipe:////.//pipe//docker_engine.

timeoutSeconds

no

integer

The maximum amount of time to wait for docker API requests. The default value is 5

cacheSyncInterval

no

integer

The time to wait before resyncing the list of containers the monitor maintains through the docker event listener. An example is cacheSyncInterval: "20m" The default value is 60m

labelsToDimensions

no

map of strings

A mapping of container label names to dimension names. The corresponding label values become the dimension value for the mapped name. For example, io.kubernetes.container.name: container_spec_name results in a dimension called container_spec_name that has the value of the io.kubernetes.container.name container label.

envToDimensions

no

map of strings

A mapping of container environment variable names to dimension names. The corresponding env var values become the dimension values on the emitted metrics. For example, APP_VERSION: version results in data points having a dimension called version whose value is the value of the APP_VERSION envvar configured for that particular container, if present.

excludedImages

no

list of strings

A list of filters of images to exclude. Supports literals, globs, and regex.

Metrics πŸ”—

The following metrics are available for this integration:

Notes πŸ”—

  • Learn more about the available metric types in Observability Cloud.

  • Default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See more about metric categories.

  • To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics using the Collector.

Troubleshooting πŸ”—

If you are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, try these tips:

To learn about even more support options, see Splunk Customer Success.

Protocol not available error πŸ”—

If you get the following error message when configuring the monitor on a Windows host:

Error: Error initializing Docker client: protocol not available

edit the configuration and replace unix:///var/run/docker.sock with npipe:////.//pipe//docker_engine.