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google/cadvisor — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-06-21

19,126GoAudience · ops devopsComplexity · 3/5Setup · easy

tl;dr

A Google tool that monitors every running container in real time, showing exactly how much CPU, memory, network, and disk each one is using via a dashboard and Prometheus-compatible API.

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    What it does
      CPU monitoring
      Memory tracking
      Network stats
    Tech stack
      Go
      Docker
      Prometheus
    Use cases
      Container diagnostics
      Cluster monitoring
      Performance tuning
    Integrations
      Kubernetes
      Grafana
      Web dashboard

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Find which container on a server is consuming too much memory by viewing real-time usage graphs in the built-in dashboard

VIBE 2

Feed per-container resource metrics into Prometheus to power alerting and Grafana dashboards

VIBE 3

Run cAdvisor on every node in a Kubernetes cluster to get cluster-wide container visibility

VIBE 4

Diagnose performance problems in a Dockerized application by inspecting historical CPU and network usage

what's the stack?

GoDockerPrometheusKubernetes

how it stacks up fr

google/cadvisorbettercap/bettercapprobelabs/goreplay
Stars19,12619,19819,288
LanguageGoGoGo
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity3/54/53/5
Audienceops devopsops devopsops devops

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 5min

Launch with a single Docker run command, Kubernetes integration requires a DaemonSet deployment.

in plain english

cAdvisor (short for Container Advisor) is a tool from Google that watches your running containers and tells you exactly how much CPU, memory, network, and disk each one is consuming in real time. If you run applications inside containers, using Docker or a similar system, you need a way to see what those containers are actually doing on the machine. cAdvisor fills that gap by running as a background process alongside your containers, continuously collecting resource usage data and making it available through a web dashboard and a programmable API. It works by reading low-level system information about each container, then organizing that data into historical usage graphs and statistics. You can view the built-in web interface in a browser or connect monitoring tools (like Prometheus) to pull the data automatically. You would use cAdvisor when you are running containers on a server and want to diagnose performance problems, spot a container that is eating too much memory, or feed resource metrics into a larger monitoring setup. It integrates directly with Kubernetes as well, where it can run on every node in a cluster to give cluster-wide visibility. The project is written in Go and can be launched in seconds as a Docker container itself.

prompts (copy fr)

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Show me the Docker run command to start cAdvisor and monitor all containers on a Linux server
prompt 2
How do I configure Prometheus to scrape cAdvisor metrics and display them in a Grafana dashboard?
prompt 3
Write a Kubernetes DaemonSet manifest to deploy cAdvisor on every node in my cluster
prompt 4
How do I use the cAdvisor HTTP API to get the current CPU and memory usage of a specific container by name?

Frequently asked questions

what is cadvisor fr?

A Google tool that monitors every running container in real time, showing exactly how much CPU, memory, network, and disk each one is using via a dashboard and Prometheus-compatible API.

What language is cadvisor written in?

Mainly Go. The stack also includes Go, Docker, Prometheus.

How hard is cadvisor to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is cadvisor for?

Mainly ops devops.

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