Docker Containers 🔗

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 🔗

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 Splunk 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 Use navigators in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
Access the Metric Finder and search for metrics sent by the monitor. For information, see Search the Metric Finder and Metadata catalog.

Installation 🔗

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:
Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.
Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Configuration 🔗

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

Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.
Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

Read more on how to Use Smart Agent monitors with the Collector.
See how to set up the Smart Agent receiver.
Learn about config options in Collector default configuration.

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 🔗

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 🔗

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 🔗

The following metrics are available for this integration:

Notes 🔗

To learn more about the available in Observability Cloud see Metric types.
In host-based subscription plans, 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 Metric categories for more information.
In MTS-based subscription plans, all metrics are custom.
To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics in Add additional metrics.

Troubleshooting 🔗

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

Submit a case in the Splunk Support Portal.
- Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers
Call Splunk Customer Support
- Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers
Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers.
- Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers and free trial users
Join the Splunk #observability user group Slack channel to communicate with customers, partners, and Splunk employees worldwide
- Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers and free trial users
- To learn how to join, see Get Started with Splunk Community - Chat groups.

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

Protocol not available error 🔗

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.

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