For AI agents: A markdown version of this page is available at https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/integrations/podman_metrics.md. A documentation index is available at /llms.txt.

Podman Metrics

Overview

The 'Containers - Overview' dashboard, showing metrics for CPU and Memory usage.

The Podman receiver collects metrics that populate the Containers - Overview dashboard. Configure the receiver according to the specifications of the latest version of the podmanreceiver.

This dashboard displays metrics from all container runtimes. To view your Podman data, use the runtime template variable at the top of the dashboard to select podman.

For more information, see the OpenTelemetry project documentation for the Podman receiver.

Setup

To collect Podman metrics with OpenTelemetry for use with Datadog:

  1. Configure the Podman receiver in your OpenTelemetry Collector configuration.
  2. Ensure the OpenTelemetry Collector is configured to export to Datadog.

See the Podman receiver documentation for detailed configuration options and requirements.

Data collected

OTELDESCRIPTION
container.blockio.io_service_bytes_recursive.readNumber of bytes transferred from the disk by the container
container.blockio.io_service_bytes_recursive.writeNumber of bytes transferred to the disk by the container
container.cpu.usage.systemSystem CPU usage, as reported by docker.
container.cpu.usage.totalTotal CPU time consumed.
container.memory.usage.limitMemory limit of the container.
container.memory.usage.totalMemory usage of the container.
container.network.io.usage.rx_bytesBytes received by the container.
container.network.io.usage.tx_bytesBytes sent by the container.

For the full mapping between OpenTelemetry and Datadog metric names, see OpenTelemetry Metrics Mapping.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

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