docker-netdata-autoscale

Auto scaling netdata ephemeral nodes for monitoring a cluster of docker hosts (preferable in rancher).

For more detailed information see

• https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki
• https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki/monitoring-ephemeral-nodes
• http://rancher.com/

Run

Just run the compose file:

$ docker-compose up -d .

Run (in Rancher)

Just paste the two from this repository configs (docker-compose.yml and rancher-compose.yml) to your monitoring stack and fire it up. Optionally you can change the API key to your needs.

Autoscaling and control

The scaling of netdata master and slave services (containers) is loosely based on labels in rancher.

A node inheriting the label monitoring-slave = true will start a monitoring slave (ephemeral node) and a node containing monitoring-masterwill start a master netdata (container).

Both, master and slave containers can scale. For true autoscaling, just remove the label constraints for the monitoring-slave = true from the above config.