Monitoring remote container processes

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Hello,

I have Metricbeat deployed in a dedicated Docker container monitoring CPU, Memory and I/O on numerous other containers running on the same VM. Data is collected from the other containers via /var/run/docker.sock as explained in the "Running Metricbeat on Docker" guide.

My question is, can I monitor processes on these remote containers via /var/run/docker.sock or am I forced to run Metricbeat in each of these other containers to get process info?

Thanks,
Butch

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Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm running Metricbeat 6.7 and using the Docker module.

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Can you elaborate on what processes you would like to monitor? Are you thinking about monitoring mysql (just an example) in a mysql container or all processes inside this mysql container?

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Thanks for your response -

I'm interested in simply verifying that a few processes are active on the HOST from Metricbeat running in a Docker container. For example, I may want to make sure crond is running on the host and generate an email if it's not running.

My plan is to write a watcher to verify a specific process exists in the list of processes sent from Metricbeat to Elasticsearch and generate an email if not.

Thanks,
Butch

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