How do you monitor varnish cache inside a docker container?
I have found many tools on Google relating to this but we are focusing only on nagios
and new relic
.
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Sign up to join this communityVarnish is monitored with what they call VSM. It's a file in your container. If you bind mount the folder where the files is, you can share the same folder / files in other containers that will be able to read it, and thus will be able to monitor your varnish instance.
See the note about VSM and containers in varnish docs.
I have been able to launch a varnishstat
with statistics in a container with varnish in the image, but no varnish running, like this:
docker run --rm -it \
--entrypoint=/bin/sh \
-v /var/lib/docker/overlay2/$hash/merged/usr/local/var/varnish/$hostname:/varnish \
emgag/varnish:5.1.3 varnishstat -N /varnish/_.vsm