Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)

Monitoring Containers

In a typical containerized environment, one host machine can run many containers. From a macro monitoring perspective, we first want to have an overview of the container status—for example, how many healthy containers vs. broken containers are on that host VM, or how many web containers vs. database containers are running on the host VM? This data is particularly important if we have more than one VM in a cluster, which is the case in almost any real world scenario. It gives us insights into how and what types of containers and services are distributed across a cluster, so that we can correct unwanted behaviors. For example, we can learn over time that our containers hosting databases use up way more resources than the ...