google/cadvisor
Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 93
- Release rhythm 92
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 2
- age_days: 4468
- days_rel: 53
- days_push: 44
- n_releases_24m: 18
Adoption not part of the score
19382 stars · 2486 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is a running daemon from Google that collects, aggregates, processes, and exports resource usage and performance statistics for running containers. It provides per-container and machine-wide metrics via a web UI and storage/export plugins, with native Docker support and Kubernetes DaemonSet deployment.
Use cases
- monitor cpu and memory usage of docker containers
- collect container metrics for prometheus
- track historical resource usage per container
- monitor container performance in kubernetes
- export container network and disk stats
- understand resource isolation parameters of running containers
When to choose
- you need per-container resource metrics on a docker or kubernetes host
- you want a lightweight single-binary/container monitoring agent that exports to prometheus or other backends
- you need historical resource usage histograms and network stats per container
When to avoid
- you need full observability with logs, traces, and alerting out of the box
- you monitor non-Linux hosts such as Windows or macOS containers
- you want application-level APM rather than infrastructure metrics
Facets
service · maturity active
monitoring analytics monitoring cloud-computing go self-hosted container-metrics resource-usage docker kubernetes daemon prometheus-exporter containers devops linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/google/cadvisor · fetched 2026-08-28 · f9e4f8764b51
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| google/cadvisor | main | 94 |
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