What is the best way to monitor an application that is running inside a docker container?

Question

What is the best way to monitor an application that is running inside a docker container?

Answer 1

The things that make containers so revolutionary is because they are isolated, lightweight, secure and they also make them very impractical to monitor - they are basically black boxes. At a high level, you have two options:

1. Monitor from inside the container.

2. Monitor from outside the container.

I would suggest you take up the following Docker training Course to learn more about it. Here is a video tutorial which you can also watch to learn more about Docker.

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