cAdvisor exposes its raw and processed stats via a versioned remote REST API:
https://<hostname>:<port>/api/<version>/<request>
The current version of the API is v1.3
.
There is a beta release of the v2.0
API available.
This version exposes the same endpoints as v1.2
with one additional read-only endpoint.
The resource name for Docker container information is as follows:
/api/v1.3/events/<absolute container name>
Querying the endpoint receives a list of events which are a serialized Event
JSON objects (found in info/v1/container.go).
The endpoint accepts a certain number of query parameters:
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
start_time |
Start time of events to query (for stream=false) | Beginning of time |
end_time |
End time of events to query (for stream=false) | Now |
stream |
Whether to stream new events as they occur. If false returns historical events | false |
subcontainers |
Whether to also return events for all subcontainers | false |
max_events |
The max number of events to return (for stream=false) | 10 |
all_events |
Whether to include all supported event types | false |
oom_events |
Whether to include OOM events | false |
oom_kill_events |
Whether to include OOM kill events | false |
creation_events |
Whether to include container creation events | false |
deletion_events |
Whether to include container deletion events | false |
This version exposes the same endpoints as v1.1
with one additional read-only endpoint.
The resource name for Docker container information is as follows:
/api/v1.2/docker/<Docker container name or blank for all Docker containers>
The Docker name can be either the UUID or the short name of the container. It returns the information of the specified container(s). The information is returned as a list of serialized ContainerInfo
JSON objects (found in info/v1/container.go).
This version exposes the same endpoints as v1.0
with one additional read-only endpoint.
The resource name for subcontainer information is as follows:
/api/v1.1/subcontainers/<absolute container name>
Where the absolute container name follows the lmctfy naming convention (described bellow). It returns the information of the specified container and all subcontainers (recursively). The information is returned as a list of serialized ContainerInfo
JSON objects (found in info/v1/container.go).
This version exposes two main endpoints, one for container information and the other for machine information. Both endpoints are read-only in v1.0.
The resource name for container information is as follows:
/api/v1.0/containers/<absolute container name>
Where the absolute container name follows the lmctfy naming convention. For example:
Container Name | Resource Name |
---|---|
/ | /api/v1.0/containers/ |
/foo | /api/v1.0/containers/foo |
/docker/2c4dee605d22 | /api/v1.0/containers/docker/2c4dee605d22 |
Note that the root container (/
) contains usage for the entire machine. All Docker containers are listed under /docker
.
The container information is returned as a JSON object containing:
- Absolute container name
- List of subcontainers
- ContainerSpec which describes the resource isolation enabled in the container
- Detailed resource usage statistics of the container for the last
N
seconds (N
is globally configurable in cAdvisor) - Histogram of resource usage from the creation of the container
The actual object is the marshalled JSON of the ContainerInfo
struct found in info/v1/container.go
The resource name for machine information is as follows:
/api/vX.Y/machine
This resource is read-only. The machine information is returned as a JSON object containing:
- Number of schedulable logical CPU cores
- Memory capacity (in bytes)
- Maximum supported CPU frequency (in kHz)
- Available filesystems: major, minor numbers and capacity (in bytes)
- Network devices: mac addresses, MTU, and speed (if available)
- Machine topology: Nodes, cores, threads, per-node memory, and caches
The actual object is the marshalled JSON of the MachineInfo
struct found in info/v1/machine.go