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Docker Desktop integration for Grafana Cloud

Docker Desktop is an easy-to-install application for your Mac, Windows or Linux environment that enables you to build and share containerized applications and microservices. This integration allows you to monitor your local Docker Desktop instance using the Grafana Cloud extension in Docker Desktop.The integration includes dashboard to monitor Docker metrics and logs as well as the Linux host metrics and logs.

This integration includes 3 pre-built dashboards to help monitor and visualize Docker Desktop metrics and logs.

Before you begin

This integration uses a custom UI override and does not need this file.

Install Docker Desktop integration for Grafana Cloud

1. In your Grafana Cloud stack, click Connections in the left-hand menu.
2. Find Docker Desktop and click its tile to open the integration.
3. Review the prerequisites in the Configuration Details tab and set up Grafana Agent to send Docker Desktop metrics and logs to your Grafana Cloud instance.
4. Click Install to add this integration’s pre-built dashboards to your Grafana Cloud instance, and you can start monitoring your Docker Desktop setup.

Post-install configuration for the Docker Desktop integration

This integration uses a custom UI override and does not need this file.

Full example configuration for Grafana Agent

Refer to the following Grafana Agent configuration for a complete example that contains all the snippets used for the Docker Desktop integration. This example also includes metrics that are sent to monitor your Grafana Agent instance.

yaml

integrations:
  prometheus_remote_write:
  - basic_auth:
      password: <your_prom_pass>
      username: <your_prom_user>
    url: <your_prom_url>
  agent:
    enabled: true
    relabel_configs:
    - action: replace
      source_labels:
      - agent_hostname
      target_label: instance
    - action: replace
      target_label: job
      replacement: "integrations/agent-check"
    metric_relabel_configs:
    - action: keep
      regex: (prometheus_target_.*|prometheus_sd_discovered_targets|agent_build.*|agent_wal_samples_appended_total|process_start_time_seconds)
      source_labels:
      - __name__
  # Add here any snippet that belongs to the `integrations` section.
  # For a correct indentation, paste snippets copied from Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the line.
logs:
  configs:
  - clients:
    - basic_auth:
        password: <your_loki_pass>
        username: <your_loki_user>
      url: <your_loki_url>
    name: integrations
    positions:
      filename: /tmp/positions.yaml
    scrape_configs:
      # Add here any snippet that belongs to the `logs.configs.scrape_configs` section.
      # For a correct indentation, paste snippets copied from Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the line.
metrics:
  configs:
  - name: integrations
    remote_write:
    - basic_auth:
        password: <your_prom_pass>
        username: <your_prom_user>
      url: <your_prom_url>
    scrape_configs:
      # Add here any snippet that belongs to the `metrics.configs.scrape_configs` section.
      # For a correct indentation, paste snippets copied from Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the line.
  global:
    scrape_interval: 60s
  wal_directory: /tmp/grafana-agent-wal

Dashboards

The Docker Desktop integration installs the following dashboards in your Grafana Cloud instance to help monitor your system.

• Docker Desktop - Docker Logs
• Docker Desktop - Docker Overview
• Docker Desktop - Node Exporter / Nodes

Docker Overview & Compute

Docker Logs

Docker Linux Virtual Machine Overview and Logs

Metrics

The most important metrics provided by the Docker Desktop integration, which are used on the pre-built dashboards, are as follows:

• container_cpu_usage_seconds_total
• container_fs_inodes_free
• container_fs_inodes_total
• container_fs_limit_bytes
• container_fs_usage_bytes
• container_last_seen
• container_memory_usage_bytes
• container_network_receive_bytes_total
• container_network_tcp_usage_total
• container_network_transmit_bytes_total
• container_spec_memory_reservation_limit_bytes
• machine_memory_bytes
• machine_scrape_error
• node_cpu_seconds_total
• node_disk_io_time_seconds_total
• node_disk_read_bytes_total
• node_disk_written_bytes_total
• node_filesystem_avail_bytes
• node_filesystem_size_bytes
• node_load1
• node_load15
• node_load5
• node_memory_Buffers_bytes
• node_memory_Cached_bytes
• node_memory_MemAvailable_bytes
• node_memory_MemFree_bytes
• node_memory_MemTotal_bytes
• node_network_receive_bytes_total
• node_network_transmit_bytes_total
• node_uname_info

Changelog

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# 0.0.2 - August 2023

* Add regex filter for logs datasource

# 0.0.1 - April 2023

* Initial release

Cost

By connecting your Docker Desktop instance to Grafana Cloud, you might incur charges. To view information on the number of active series that your Grafana Cloud account uses for metrics included in each Cloud tier, see Active series and dpm usage and Cloud tier pricing.