cAdvisor enable_metrics command not working in docker compose

Question

I'm using cAdvisor and Prometheus to monitor docker containers. I start the application using a docker-compose.yml file.

In the cAdvisor docs, I read that the --enable_metrics and --disable_metrics flags can be used to select only a subset of metrics to monitor. However, as soon as I supply any of these flags, cAdvisor appears to only monitor itself.

The --ignore_containers=cadvisor flag isn't working either, so I must be doing something wrong?

This is my docker-compose file:

version: '3.2'
services:
  prometheus:
    image: prom/prometheus:latest
    container_name: prometheus
    ports:
    - 9090:9090
    command:
    - --config.file=/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
    volumes:
    - ./prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml:ro
    depends_on:
    - cadvisor
  cadvisor:
    image: gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor:latest
    container_name: advisor
# also tried:
# command: "--enable_metrics=memory"
# command: --enable_metrics=memory
# and more...

   command:
      - --disable_metrics=accelerator,advtcp,app,cpu,cpuLoad,cpu_topology,cpuset,disk,diskIO,hugetlb,memory_numa,network,oom_event,percpu,perf_event,process,referenced_memory,resctrl,sched,tcp,udp
      - --enable_metrics=cpuLoad,memory,network
      - --ignore_containers=cadvisor
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
    - /:/rootfs:ro
    - /var/run:/var/run:rw
    - /sys:/sys:ro
    - /var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:to

   ... containers ...

EDIT:

I tried what user e0031374 suggested, and fixed the cAdvisor version to v0.47.1. However, I noticed that as soon as I provide any command, the container exits in an unhealthy state. Without the command everything runs fine.

For example, when I add

    command: 
      - "--version"

docker ps -a shows:

5c4092450466   gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor             "/usr/bin/cadvisor -…"   24 seconds ago   Exited (0) 16 seconds ago 

docker container inspect 5c4092450466 shows:

...
Created": "2023-04-20T15:57:15.491743018Z",
        "Path": "/usr/bin/cadvisor",
        "Args": [
            "-logtostderr",
            "--version"
        ],
        "State": {
            "Status": "exited",
            "Running": false,
            "Paused": false,
            "Restarting": false,
            "OOMKilled": false,
            "Dead": false,
            "Pid": 0,
            "ExitCode": 0,
            "Error": "",
            "StartedAt": "2023-04-20T15:57:22.532921383Z",
            "FinishedAt": "2023-04-20T15:57:22.726984392Z",
            "Health": {
                "Status": "unhealthy",
                "FailingStreak": 0,
                "Log": []
            }
        },
...

What am I missing here? Thanks!

Answer 1

try running cadvisor with runtime option command: "--version" to check the version of the cadvisor image you are using

cadvisor may be below v0.41.0 even though latest version is specified. if so you may need to manually specify a later version like image: gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor:v0.47.0