Monitoring Docker with Zabbix

Tested with Zabbix 2.4 (http://www.zabbix.com/) and Docker 1.5 (https://www.docker.com/).

Install

1. 'pip install docker-py'
2. Add a line from 'sudo' file to your sudo config
3. copy 'zabbix-docker-discovery.py' and 'zabbix-docker-stats.py' to '/usr/local/bin'
4. make it executable with root user
5. copy 'userparameter_docker.conf' to '/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/'
6. You need to have 'EnableRemoteCommands=1' in Zabbix agent config
7. restart zabbix-agent
8. Import 'docker_zbx_export_templates.xml' into Zabbix and configure it

The template contains

Discover docker containers

Items

• {#NAME} kernelmode cpu usage
• {#NAME} memory fail count
• {#NAME} memory max usage
• {#NAME} memory total
• {#NAME} memory usage
• {#NAME} network received bytes
• {#NAME} network received packages
• {#NAME} network received packages dropped
• {#NAME} network received packages errors
• {#NAME} network transmitted bytes
• {#NAME} network transmitted packages
• {#NAME} network transmitted packages dropped
• {#NAME} network transmitted packages errors
• {#NAME} stats scheduler
• {#NAME} system cpu usage
• {#NAME} total cpu usage
• {#NAME} usermode cpu usage

Graphs

• {#NAME} CPU
• {#NAME} Memory
• {#NAME} network