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NAME
cAdvisor - manual page for cAdvisor version 0.38.7+ds1 (0.38.7+ds1-1)
DESCRIPTION
Usage of /usr/bin/cadvisor:
-add_dir_header
If true, adds the file directory to the header of the log messages
-allow_dynamic_housekeeping
Whether to allow the housekeeping interval to be dynamic (default true)
-alsologtostderr
log to standard error as well as files
-application_metrics_count_limit int
Max number of application metrics to store (per container) (default 100)
-boot_id_file string
Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists.
(default "/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id")
-bq_account string
Service account email
-bq_credentials_file string
Credential Key file (pem)
-bq_id string
Client ID
-bq_project_id string
Bigquery project ID
-bq_secret string
Client Secret (default "notasecret")
-collector_cert string
Collector's certificate, exposed to endpoints for certificate based authentication.
-collector_key string
Key for the collector's certificate
-container_hints string
location of the container hints file (default "/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json")
-containerd string
containerd endpoint (default "/run/containerd/containerd.sock")
-containerd-namespace string
containerd namespace (default "k8s.io")
-disable_metrics metrics
comma-separated list of metrics to be disabled. Options are 'accelerator',
'cpu_topology','disk', 'diskIO', 'memory_numa', 'network', 'tcp', 'udp', 'percpu',
'sched', 'process', 'hugetlb', 'referenced_memory', 'resctrl'. (default
memory_numa,sched,hugetlb,referenced_memory,cpu_topology,resctrl,tcp,udp,advtcp,process)
-disable_root_cgroup_stats
Disable collecting root Cgroup stats
-docker string
docker endpoint (default "unix:///var/run/docker.sock")
-docker-tls
use TLS to connect to docker
-docker-tls-ca string
path to trusted CA (default "ca.pem")
-docker-tls-cert string
path to client certificate (default "cert.pem")
-docker-tls-key string
path to private key (default "key.pem")
-docker_env_metadata_whitelist string
a comma-separated list of environment variable keys matched with specified prefix
that needs to be collected for docker containers
-docker_only
Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
-docker_root string
DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fallback, default:
/var/lib/docker) (default "/var/lib/docker")
-enable_load_reader
Whether to enable cpu load reader
-event_storage_age_limit string
Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated
list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or
"default" and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified
event types (default "default=24h")
-event_storage_event_limit string
Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key
values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the
value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event types (default
"default=100000")
-global_housekeeping_interval duration
Interval between global housekeepings (default 1m0s)
-housekeeping_interval duration
Interval between container housekeepings (default 1s)
-http_auth_file string
HTTP auth file for the web UI
-http_auth_realm string
HTTP auth realm for the web UI (default "localhost")
-http_digest_file string
HTTP digest file for the web UI
-http_digest_realm string
HTTP digest file for the web UI (default "localhost")
-listen_ip string
IP to listen on, defaults to all IPs
-log_backtrace_at value
when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
-log_cadvisor_usage
Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
-log_dir string
If non-empty, write log files in this directory
-log_file string
If non-empty, use this log file
-log_file_max_size uint
Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is
0, the maximum file size is unlimited. (default 1800)
-logtostderr
log to standard error instead of files (default true)
-machine_id_file string
Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the first one that
exists. (default "/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id")
-max_housekeeping_interval duration
Largest interval to allow between container housekeepings (default 1m0s)
-max_procs int
max number of CPUs that can be used simultaneously. Less than 1 for default (number
of cores).
-mesos_agent string
Mesos agent address (default "127.0.0.1:5051")
-mesos_agent_timeout duration
Mesos agent timeout (default 10s)
-perf_events_config string
Path to a JSON file containing configuration of perf events to measure. Empty value
disabled perf events measuring.
-port int
port to listen (default 8080)
-profiling
Enable profiling via web interface host:port/debug/pprof/
-prometheus_endpoint string
Endpoint to expose Prometheus metrics on (default "/metrics")
-raw_cgroup_prefix_whitelist string
A comma-separated list of cgroup path prefix that needs to be collected even when
-docker_only is specified
-referenced_reset_interval uint
Reset interval for referenced bytes (container_referenced_bytes metric), number of
measurement cycles after which referenced bytes are cleared, if set to 0 referenced
bytes are never cleared (default: 0)
-skip_headers
If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
-skip_log_headers
If true, avoid headers when opening log files
-stderrthreshold value
logs at or above this threshold go to stderr (default 2)
-storage_driver driver
Storage driver to use. Data is always cached shortly in memory, this controls where
data is pushed besides the local cache. Empty means none, multiple separated by
commas. Options are: <empty>, bigquery, elasticsearch, kafka, redis, statsd, stdout
-storage_driver_buffer_duration duration
Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration, and committed to
the non memory backends as a single transaction (default 1m0s)
-storage_driver_db string
database name (default "cadvisor")
-storage_driver_es_enable_sniffer
ElasticSearch uses a sniffing process to find all nodes of your cluster by default,
automatically
-storage_driver_es_host string
ElasticSearch host:port (default "http://localhost:9200")
-storage_driver_es_index string
ElasticSearch index name (default "cadvisor")
-storage_driver_es_type string
ElasticSearch type name (default "stats")
-storage_driver_host string
database host:port (default "localhost:8086")
-storage_driver_kafka_broker_list string
kafka broker(s) csv (default "localhost:9092")
-storage_driver_kafka_ssl_ca string
optional certificate authority file for TLS client authentication
-storage_driver_kafka_ssl_cert string
optional certificate file for TLS client authentication
-storage_driver_kafka_ssl_key string
optional key file for TLS client authentication
-storage_driver_kafka_ssl_verify
verify ssl certificate chain (default true)
-storage_driver_kafka_topic string
kafka topic (default "stats")
-storage_driver_password string
database password (default "root")
-storage_driver_secure
use secure connection with database
-storage_driver_table string
table name (default "stats")
-storage_driver_user string
database username (default "root")
-storage_duration duration
How long to keep data stored (Default: 2min). (default 2m0s)
-store_container_labels
convert container labels and environment variables into labels on prometheus
metrics for each container. If flag set to false, then only metrics exported are
container name, first alias, and image name (default true)
-update_machine_info_interval duration
Interval between machine info updates. (default 5m0s)
-url_base_prefix string
prefix path that will be prepended to all paths to support some reverse proxies
-v value
number for the log level verbosity
-version
print cAdvisor version and exit
-vmodule value
comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging
-whitelisted_container_labels string
comma separated list of container labels to be converted to labels on prometheus
metrics for each container. store_container_labels must be set to false for this to
take effect.