Memory usage of Docker containers

Question

I am using Docker to run some containerized apps. I am interested in measuring how much resources they consume (as far as regarding CPU and Memory usage).

Is there any w

Answer 1

Also, you can read resource metrics directly from cgroups. See example below (I am running on Debian Jessie and docker 1.2)

> docker ps -q
afa03c363af5
> ls /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/ | grep docker-afa03c363af5
docker-afa03c363af54815d721d938e01fe4cb2debc4f6c15ebff1851e20f6cde3ae0e.scope
> cd docker-afa03c363af54815d721d938e01fe4cb2debc4f6c15ebff1851e20f6cde3ae0e.scope
> cat memory.usage_in_bytes
4358144
> cat memory.limit_in_bytes
1073741824