Monitoring Linux Containers (LXC)
The Linux Containers (LXC) sensor is automatically deployed and installed after you install the Instana agent.
Supported Versions
- 1.0.x
- 2.0.x
- 3.0.x
- 3.1.x
Instana agent is capable of monitoring privileged containers only.
Metrics collection
To view the metrics, select Infrastructure in the sidebar of the Instana User interface, click a specific monitored host, and then you can see a host dashboard with all the collected metrics and monitored processes.
Configuration data
- Name
- IP
- PID
- State
- Privileged
- Network Interface
- Filesystem per Device
- Mount, Options and type information
Performance metrics
| Metric | Description | Granularity |
|---|---|---|
| CPU usage (kernel,user) | System and user processes CPU usage | 1 second |
| Active anon memory | Anonymous memory that has been used more recently and usually not swapped out | 1 second |
| Active file memory | Pagecache memory that has been used more recently and usually not reclaimed until needed | 1 second |
| Inactive anon memory | Anonymous memory that has not been used recently and can be swapped out | 1 second |
| Inactive file memory | Pagecache memory that can be reclaimed without huge performance impact | 1 second |
| Memory usage | Memory usage in bytes and percentage | 1 second |
| RSS memory | The resident set size (RSS) is the amount of space of physical memory (RAM) held by a process | 1 second |
| Cache memory | Used cache memory | 1 second |
| Swap memory | Swap memory usage in bytes and percentage | 1 second |
| Network RX/TX Bytes | Receive/transmitted bytes over the network via this interface | 1 second |
| Network RX/TX Packets | Receive/transmitted packets over the network via this interface | 1 second |
| Filesystem usage (total, free, used) | Total and free space in bytes, and used percentage | 1 second |