Glances [Flux] 2025

v2.0 Glances Grafana Dashboard with a Focus on Docker Container Monitoring

Displays system monitoring data collected using Glances in a Grafana dashboard with a focus on docker containers.

Some of the data displayed:

System info
Mount point storage used
Disk IO
Sensor temperatures
Comprehensive tables showing all containers memory and CPU usage
Individual tables for each container showing memory and CPU usage

Supports easily changing the data bucket, host, selected containers, network interface, disk and temperature sensor. Data is sourced from InfluxDB 2.x using Flux.

Requirements:

For best results you will need:

Docker environment with your containers you want to monitor
Glances container
InfluxDB 2.x container
Grafana container, configured to use Flux query language with InfluxDB

How to use it?

Deploy 3 docker containers: InfluxDB, Glances, Grafana.
Setup InfluxDB 2.x server and create a new bucket for glances.

Configure your glances.conf file to export data to InfluxDB, this is what the default looks like:

[influxdb2]
host=localhost
port=8086
protocol=http
org=PUT_YOUR_ORG_NAME_HERE
bucket=PUT_YOUR_BUCKET_NAME_HERE
token=PUT_YOUR_INFLUXDB2_TOKEN_HERE

Start Glances with the export flag: glances --export influxdb2
Open Grafana webui, and navigate to the add a new dashboard. Either copy the dashboard directly from here, or import from grafana.com.
If you don’t see data displayed, ensure you have selected the right bucket and host from the dropdowns.