How to monitor Docker Swarm

Jorge Salamero Sanz's article offers a detailed guide on monitoring Docker Swarm using Sysdig Monitor, emphasizing the importance of leveraging container orchestration platform metadata for effective service monitoring and troubleshooting. Docker Swarm, central to Docker's container orchestration, benefits from Sysdig's ability to automatically import and analyze Swarm metadata, providing comprehensive monitoring across host, container, network, and application data without extra user instrumentation. The article explains Docker Swarm's core components, like services, stacks, and tasks, and how Sysdig Monitor utilizes these to offer dynamic infrastructure grouping, metric analysis, and alerting capabilities. It highlights the availability of pre-built dashboards for Swarm monitoring, including Swarm Overview and Swarm Services, featuring metrics and alerts for issues like slow service response time or cluster quorum loss. Additionally, the article outlines Sysdig's multi-tenant capabilities, enabling restricted visibility based on team configurations, and concludes with steps to start monitoring a Docker Swarm cluster using Sysdig.