dockette/cadvisor repository overview

⁠Dockette / cAdvisor

Minimal Docker image for cAdvisor⁠ (Container Advisor), mirroring ghcr.io/google/cadvisor under the dockette/cadvisor name on Docker Hub.

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⁠What it is

cAdvisor⁠ collects and exposes resource usage and performance data for running containers. See the upstream README⁠ and running docs⁠ for full detail.

⁠Usage

Typical Docker on Linux host monitoring (aligned with the upstream quick start⁠); the UI and API listen on port 8080 inside the container:

docker run -d --name cadvisor --privileged --device=/dev/kmsg \
  --volume=/:/rootfs:ro \
  --volume=/var/run:/var/run:ro \
  --volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
  --volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro \
  --volume=/dev/disk/:/dev/disk:ro \
  --publish=8080:8080 \
  dockette/cadvisor:0.60.6

Then open http://localhost:8080. On rootless Docker, Podman, or non-default graph roots, the path to the container runtime state may differ from /var/lib/docker; adjust the bind mount to match your setup.

--privileged and --device=/dev/kmsg match the common upstream example for broad compatibility; you may be able to reduce privileges for your environment—see upstream runtime options⁠.

Use make run to start the same local cAdvisor container with the documented host mounts, --privileged, and /dev/kmsg device access.

⁠Versions

Docker image tags use the numeric form (e.g. 0.60.6), matching ghcr.io/google/cadvisor. GitHub releases⁠ use a v prefix (e.g. v0.60.6) for the same version.

This image is a thin republish: the Dockerfile uses FROM ghcr.io/google/cadvisor:${CADVISOR_VERSION} so runtime behavior matches that upstream tag.

For cAdvisor versions before v0.53.0, the historical registry was gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor instead of GHCR; this repo only republishes the modern GHCR tags.

⁠Maintenance

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