Overview

Docker is an open source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers.

Get metrics from Docker in real time to:

• Visualize your containers’ performance
• Correlate the performance of containers with the applications running inside

Setup

If you want to run the Agent inside a container, see the Docker Agent documentation.

Data Collected

For information about metrics, events, and service checks, see Docker Data Collected.

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

How to monitor Kubernetes + Docker with DatadogBLOG Docker logging best practicesBLOG