Collectd configured to fetch running docker container stats using the stats endpoint introduced in Docker1.5.

The collectd python plugin is used to run a script that communicates with the machine's docker daemon.

A Docker plugin for collectd using docker-py and collectd's Python plugin.

This uses the new stats API (moby/moby#9984) introduced by Docker 1.5

• Network bandwidth
• Memory usage
• CPU usage
• Block IO

1. Place dockerplugin.py and dockerplugin.db in /usr/share/collectd (this is only an example).
2. Configure the plugin (see below).
3. Restart collectd.

Add the following to your collectd config:

TypesDB "/usr/share/collectd/dockerplugin.db"
LoadPlugin python

<Plugin python>
  ModulePath "/usr/share/collectd"
  Import "dockerplugin"

  <Module dockerplugin>
    BaseURL "unix://var/run/docker.sock"
  </Module>
</Plugin>

• docker-py
• python-dateutil
• docker 1.5+