What are the tools available to monitor docker container resource consumption? Recently, application containerization is becoming more popular ever since Docker came. But, it's important to collect resource consumption of containers to benchmark different applications.
If you want to see the resources consumption of your containers you can execute the command docker stats on your terminal it returns CPU, memory, network usage by container
NexClipper is the simple and easy container monitoring tool which to collects statistics, status, process, network, environment, volume, and log.
My recommedation is cAdvisor that already used by kubernetes node monitoring and OpenShift metrics engines. And Prometheus is also popular, the information is taken easily from searching google.
cAdvisor
[ https://github.com/google/cadvisor ]
Example links
Monitoring Docker Containers – docker stats, cAdvisor, Universal Control Plane
Running cAdvisor
[ https://github.com/google/cadvisor/blob/master/docs/running.md#other-configurations ]
Docker, cAdvisor, InfluxDB and Grafana
[ http://softwaretester.info/docker-cadvisor-influxdb-and-grafana/ ]