DockerDog

DockerDog reports Docker events to DataDog as metrics.

DockerDog requires Docker API 1.22 or higher.

Why should I use this over the DataDog agent?

The DataDog agent has some problems:

1. It doesn't tag events with the attributes of the event (e.g. no signal with the kill event).
2. It doesn't generate metric counts from the events, which can be useful in alerting.

Events

DockerDog generates counters for all container and image events, and tags them with the events attributes:

Container events

docker.events.container.attach
docker.events.container.commit
docker.events.container.copy
docker.events.container.create
docker.events.container.destroy
docker.events.container.die
docker.events.container.exec_create
docker.events.container.exec_start
docker.events.container.export
docker.events.container.kill
docker.events.container.oom
docker.events.container.pause
docker.events.container.rename
docker.events.container.resize
docker.events.container.restart
docker.events.container.start
docker.events.container.stop
docker.events.container.top
docker.events.container.unpause
docker.events.container.update

Image events

docker.events.image.delete
docker.events.image.import
docker.events.image.pull
docker.events.image.push
docker.events.image.tag
docker.events.image.untag