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GroundWork Releases BoxSpy Container Monitoring for Dynamic Docker and Linux Container Environments
November 2014 by Marc Jacob
GroundWork, Inc. releases GroundWork BoxSpy, designed specifically to monitor Docker and other Linux container environments. GroundWork BoxSpy is the most resource-efficient, comprehensive monitoring system available for today’s container technologies.
Benefits of monitoring Docker containers with GroundWork BoxSpy:
Works ‘out-of-the-box’ with GroundWork, but also has a REST API that makes it compatible with other monitoring technologies
Lives in a container and is capable of monitoring other containers running on the same system
Designed for both DevOps and production environments
Adds full-featured enterprise monitoring to Docker environments with the ability to correlate Docker performance with the rest of the IT environment
Designed for dynamic environments — automatically monitors new Docker containers as you spin them up
BoxSpy is based on Google’s cAdvisor container monitoring technology and improves it by:
Dramatically reducing the resource demand and performance impact
API clean-up and bug-fixing
Removing unnecessary overhead that isn’t needed when talking to an external monitoring system
Normalising metrics to make them more human readable and standardised
Adding threshold setting
Adding process monitoring
BoxSpy is available, either as an installable binary or source for local compilation.
