Exporting cAdvisor Stats to ElasticSearch

cAdvisor supports exporting stats to ElasticSearch. To use ES, you need to provide the additional flags to cAdvisor:

Set the storage driver as ES:

 -storage_driver=elasticsearch

Specify ES host address:

 -storage_driver_es_host="http://elasticsearch:9200"

There are also optional flags:

 # ElasticSearch type name. By default it's "stats".
 -storage_driver_es_type="stats"
 # ElasticSearch can use a sniffing process to find all nodes of your cluster automatically. False by default.
 -storage_driver_es_enable_sniffer=false

Examples

For a detailed tutorial, see docker-elk-cadvisor-dashboards