# Monitoring remote container processes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-container-processes/183600
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [May 30, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-container-processes/183600 "2019-05-30T19:54:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@butchkelley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/butchkelley)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-container-processes/183600/1 "2019-05-30T19:54:20Z")
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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### Author:  [@butchkelley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/butchkelley)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-container-processes/183600/2 "2019-05-30T19:57:27Z")
Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm running Metricbeat 6.7 and using the Docker module.
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-container-processes/183600/3 "2019-06-04T07:09:21Z")
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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### Author:  [@butchkelley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/butchkelley)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-container-processes/183600/4 "2019-06-04T19:21:50Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-container-processes/183600/5 "2019-07-02T19:25:44Z")
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