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Elastic Docs ›Elastic Observability [8.15] ›Infrastructure monitoring ›Metrics reference

Container metrics

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Container metrics

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Learn about key container metrics displayed in the Infrastructure app:

Docker container metrics

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These are the key metrics displayed for Docker containers.

CPU usage metrics

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Metric Description

CPU Usage (%)

Average CPU for the container.

Field Calculation: average(docker.cpu.total.pct)

Memory metrics

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Metric Description

Memory Usage (%)

Average memory usage for the container.

Field Calculation: average(docker.memory.usage.pct)

Network metrics

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Metric Description

Inbound Traffic (RX)

Derivative of the maximum of docker.network.in.bytes scaled to a 1 second rate.

Outbound Traffic (TX)

Derivative of the maximum of docker.network.out.bytes scaled to a 1 second rate.

Kubernetes container metrics

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These are the key metrics displayed for Kubernetes (containerd) containers.

CPU usage metrics

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Metric Description

CPU Usage (%)

Average CPU for the container.

Field Calculation: average(kubernetes.container.cpu.usage.limit.pct)

Memory metrics

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Metric Description

Memory Usage (%)

Average memory usage for the container.

Field Calculation: average(kubernetes.container.memory.usage.limit.pct)
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