Quick question about the filebeat and metricbeat "autodiscover" feature for Docker. Does this work with "static" containers, or does metric/log collection from within the docker container only begin if the beats notice a "start" trigger via the Docker API.
The reason I'm asking is that I have some static containers (such as elasticsearch itself in Docker) that only start if the Ubuntu server is started/rebooted. I'm not sure if the "autodiscover" feature will find containers that are already started when the beats container is started.
I guess a work-around would be to start the filebeat and metricbeat container before the reset of the application containers...