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How to monitor Docker containers running in vSphere integrated containers

satit_dpm
Contributor

Dear all,

Monitor Docker environment is easy with just installing OneAgent in Docker hosts or deploy OneAgent as a Docker Container in Docker hosts.

However, I have encountered a customer running Docker Container in VMWare Virtual Container Host (VCH).

This VCH is a logical host with an associated endpoint VM based on Photon OS.

You can SSH to this endpoint VM with vic-machine CLI debug mode, however, you cannot install anything in it as it will not persist once this VM restart (it will restore from VM image)

Anyone has experience deploying OneAgent in similar architecture?

Regards,

Satit

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ChadTurner
DynaMight Legend
DynaMight Legend

@Satit A. were you able to monitor docker containers in Vsphere? did you run into any issues? Did you reach out to support on this? Were there any issues/lessons learned that you ran into?

-Chad

Same questions as @ChadTurner@satit_dpm how did this story end?
Actually coming across a similar deployment question. If anybody else has some insight that would be great too, of course. 

Kind regards, Frans Stekelenburg                 Certified Dynatrace Associate | measure.works, Dynatrace Partner

fstekelenburg
DynaMight Pro
DynaMight Pro

I found a solution based on Wavefront, that makes use of Telegraf. 
Photon OS Host Integration | Tanzu Observability Documentation (wavefront.com)
I can imagine that of OneAgent deployment is not possible, a similar result with Telegraf might be possible?

Kind regards, Frans Stekelenburg                 Certified Dynatrace Associate | measure.works, Dynatrace Partner

spotted some more info
Start Monitoring Physical Servers Using the Telegraf Deployment Script on a Linux Platform (vmware.c...

VMware Application Proxy: Manage Your Wavefront Telegraf Agents with vRealize Operations 6.7 - VMwar...

Kind regards, Frans Stekelenburg                 Certified Dynatrace Associate | measure.works, Dynatrace Partner

 Hello,
I wanted to ask if there was any data or information about whether the implementation could be carried out or is there any case?
What I understood was that by deploying the vRealize Operations proxy, which is used to obtain metrics, I would execute the Telegraf script there and obtain the metrics from the host with Photon OS.
Finally, would I have to ingest the metrics from this proxy to Dynatrace via API?

satit_dpm
Contributor

Hi @fstekelenburg @hchan ,

 

In the end, customer decided to migrate to K8S instead.
So there is no solution needed.

 

Regards,

Satit

Well, that is also kind of a solution I guess. Thanks, Satit.

Kind regards, Frans Stekelenburg                 Certified Dynatrace Associate | measure.works, Dynatrace Partner

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