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Frank 31908c623f feat(observability): per-container metrics via cadvisor + Containers dashboard
Per-container CPU/memory was invisible for the quadlet app stack — Grafana could
only see the host (node_exporter) and the LLM engines. This adds a rootless
cadvisor quadlet on each host and a `containers` dashboard.

cadvisor works on this rootless-Podman / cgroup-v2 host on one condition:
--cgroupns=host. Podman starts every container in a private cgroup namespace, so
without it cadvisor sees only its own cgroup root and exports a single series
(measured 2026-10-20: 1 series off, 996 on). The libpod socket does not name the
rootless app containers (it resolved 2 of 34), so naming comes from elsewhere:
the quadlet unit name is carried in the cgroup path
(app.slice/<name>.service/libpod-payload-<hex>), and Prometheus relabels it into
a `container` label. No podman socket needed.

cadvisor cannot bind per-interface like node_exporter, so each unit is a bridge
container publishing exactly 127.0.0.1:8080 and the host LAN address — never a
wildcard. Prometheus (a bridge container) reaches a host-published port at the
LAN address, so cadvisor-dankclaw/dankserver scrape 192.168.0.143:8080 /
192.168.0.235:8080. Only the families cadvisor actually exports for these
containers are graphed — CPU usage, memory working-set/limit, OOM — not network
or filesystem, which are absent under the host-PID layout.

Wired through the deployer (allowlist, deploy_observability case + /healthz gate,
dispatcher), the planner (both targets), and observability_quadlet.bats.
2026-10-20 22:51:42 -07:00

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{
"uid": "containers",
"title": "Containers — Dankclaw & Dankserver",
"description": "Per-container CPU and memory for the quadlet app stacks, from cadvisor (a rootless quadlet on each host). cadvisor keys each series by the cgroup path, and Prometheus relabels the quadlet unit name (app.slice/<name>.service) into a `container` label. Panels use only the metric families cadvisor actually exports for these rootless containers: CPU usage and memory working-set/limit/OOM. Network and filesystem are NOT exported for them (no netns/classid attribution under the rootless+host-PID layout), so no panels pretend otherwise. See serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Observability.md.",
"tags": ["fleet", "cadvisor", "containers"],
"timezone": "browser",
"schemaVersion": 39,
"refresh": "30s",
"time": { "from": "now-6h", "to": "now" },
"templating": {
"list": [
{
"name": "host",
"label": "Host",
"type": "query",
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
"query": { "query": "label_values(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total{job=~\"cadvisor-.*\"}, host)", "refId": "host_var" },
"refresh": 2,
"includeAll": true,
"multi": true,
"current": { "text": "All", "value": "$__all" }
},
{
"name": "container",
"label": "Container",
"type": "query",
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
"query": { "query": "label_values(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total{job=~\"cadvisor-.*\", host=~\"$host\"}, container)", "refId": "container_var" },
"refresh": 2,
"includeAll": true,
"multi": true,
"current": { "text": "All", "value": "$__all" }
}
]
},
"panels": [
{
"id": 1,
"type": "row",
"title": "CPU",
"collapsed": false,
"gridPos": { "h": 1, "w": 24, "x": 0, "y": 0 },
"panels": []
},
{
"id": 2,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "CPU usage (cores)",
"description": "CPU-seconds/s per container = cores busy. A steady high line is a busy service; a spike is a burst (a render, an index, a backup). Only containers are shown, not the host or its daemons.",
"gridPos": { "h": 9, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 1 },
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
"fieldConfig": { "defaults": { "unit": "short", "min": 0, "custom": { "fillOpacity": 8, "lineWidth": 1, "stacking": { "mode": "none" } } }, "overrides": [] },
"targets": [
{
"expr": "sum by (host, container) (rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total{job=~\"cadvisor-.*\", host=~\"$host\", container=~\"$container\"}[5m]))",
"legendFormat": "{{host}} / {{container}}",
"refId": "A"
}
]
},
{
"id": 3,
"type": "bargauge",
"title": "Top containers by CPU (cores)",
"description": "Instant ranking over the selected window. Tells you which container to look at when the host is loaded.",
"gridPos": { "h": 9, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 1 },
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
"fieldConfig": { "defaults": { "unit": "short", "min": 0, "max": null, "color": { "mode": "thresholds" }, "thresholds": { "mode": "absolute", "steps": [ { "color": "green", "value": null }, { "color": "yellow", "value": 1 }, { "color": "red", "value": 4 } ] } }, "overrides": [] },
"options": { "reduceOptions": { "calcs": [ "lastNotNull" ], "fields": "", "values": false }, "displayMode": "gradient", "orientation": "horizontal", "showUnfilled": true },
"targets": [
{
"expr": "topk(12, sum by (host, container) (rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total{job=~\"cadvisor-.*\", host=~\"$host\", container=~\"$container\"}[5m])))",
"legendFormat": "{{host}} / {{container}}",
"format": "table",
"instant": true,
"refId": "A"
}
]
},
{
"id": 4,
"type": "row",
"title": "Memory",
"collapsed": false,
"gridPos": { "h": 1, "w": 24, "x": 0, "y": 10 },
"panels": []
},
{
"id": 5,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Memory working set",
"description": "container_memory_working_set_bytes per container — the number the OOM killer acts on. Cache-inclusive and reclaimable; a flat high line is resident data, a sawtooth is churn.",
"gridPos": { "h": 9, "w": 12, "x": 0, "y": 11 },
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
"fieldConfig": { "defaults": { "unit": "bytes", "min": 0, "custom": { "fillOpacity": 8, "lineWidth": 1, "stacking": { "mode": "none" } } }, "overrides": [] },
"targets": [
{
"expr": "container_memory_working_set_bytes{job=~\"cadvisor-.*\", host=~\"$host\", container=~\"$container\"}",
"legendFormat": "{{host}} / {{container}}",
"refId": "A"
}
]
},
{
"id": 6,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "Memory vs limit (%)",
"description": "Working set over the cgroup memory limit (container_spec_memory_limit_bytes). Only containers that carry a limit are shown; approaching 1.0 means an OOM is near. Containers with no limit are omitted.",
"gridPos": { "h": 9, "w": 12, "x": 12, "y": 11 },
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
"fieldConfig": { "defaults": { "unit": "percentunit", "min": 0, "max": 1, "custom": { "fillOpacity": 8, "lineWidth": 1, "stacking": { "mode": "none" } } }, "overrides": [] },
"targets": [
{
"expr": "(container_memory_working_set_bytes{job=~\"cadvisor-.*\", host=~\"$host\", container=~\"$container\"} / on (job, host, container) group_left container_spec_memory_limit_bytes{job=~\"cadvisor-.*\", host=~\"$host\", container=~\"$container\"}) and (container_spec_memory_limit_bytes{job=~\"cadvisor-.*\", host=~\"$host\", container=~\"$container\"} > 0)",
"legendFormat": "{{host}} / {{container}}",
"refId": "A"
}
]
},
{
"id": 7,
"type": "timeseries",
"title": "OOM kills",
"description": "container_oom_events_total rate. Any non-zero line means the kernel killed a process inside that container — the honest signal that its memory limit is too tight for its real working set.",
"gridPos": { "h": 8, "w": 24, "x": 0, "y": 20 },
"datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "prometheus" },
"fieldConfig": { "defaults": { "unit": "short", "min": 0, "custom": { "fillOpacity": 20, "lineWidth": 1, "stacking": { "mode": "normal" } } }, "overrides": [] },
"targets": [
{
"expr": "sum by (host, container) (rate(container_oom_events_total{job=~\"cadvisor-.*\", host=~\"$host\", container=~\"$container\"}[5m]))",
"legendFormat": "{{host}} / {{container}}",
"refId": "A"
}
]
}
]
}