I have a Kubernetes Cluster and want to know how much disk space my containers use. I am not talking about mounted Volumes.
I can get this information by using docker commands like docker system df -v
or docker ps -s
, but I don't want to connect to every single worker node.
Is there a way to get a container's disk usage via kubectl
or are there kubelet metrics where I can get this information from?
Yes, but currently not with kubectl, you can get metrics from the kubelet, either through the kube-apiserver (proxied) or directly calling the kubelet HTTP(s) server endpoint (default port 10250
). Disk metrics are generally available on the /stats/summary
endpoint and you can also find some cAdvisor metrics on the /metrics/cavisor
endpoint.
For example, to get the 'usedBytes' for the first container in the first pod returned through the kube-apiserver:
$ curl -k -s -H 'Authorization: Bearer <REDACTED>' \
https://kube-apiserver:6443/api/v1/nodes/<node-name>/proxy/stats/summary \
| jq '.pods[0].containers[0].rootfs.usedBytes'
The Bearer token can be a service account token tied to a ClusterRole like this:
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
annotations:
name: myrole
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- nodes
- nodes/proxy
verbs:
- get
- list
- watch
- nonResourceURLs:
- /metrics
- /api/*
verbs:
- get