{"id":28975,"date":"2022-03-23T04:20:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=28975"},"modified":"2025-07-12T05:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:41:40","slug":"how-to-monitor-docker-using-zabbix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-to-monitor-docker-using-zabbix\/","title":{"rendered":"How to monitor docker using Zabbix?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 1 &#8211; Install Docker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-devopsschool-com wp-block-embed-devopsschool-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1FMkO5Lv2T\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/docker-installation-and-configurations\/\">Docker Installation and Configurations<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Docker Installation and Configurations&#8221; &#8212; DevOpsSchool.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/docker-installation-and-configurations\/embed\/#?secret=1OEMwcVXSS#?secret=1FMkO5Lv2T\" data-secret=\"1FMkO5Lv2T\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 2 &#8211; Install Zabbix Agent 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-devopsschool-com wp-block-embed-devopsschool-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"w5FXZ6xKml\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-to-install-configure-zabbix-agent\/\">How to install &#038; Configure Zabbix Agent?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How to install &#038; Configure Zabbix Agent?&#8221; &#8212; DevOpsSchool.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-to-install-configure-zabbix-agent\/embed\/#?secret=Ust5XhJZMg#?secret=w5FXZ6xKml\" data-secret=\"w5FXZ6xKml\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 3 &#8211; Configure Zabbix Agent 2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 4 &#8211; Fix the permission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Zabbix Agent(\/usr\/sbin\/zabbix_agentd) and Zabbix Server(\/usr\/sbin\/zabbix_server) run with a user called &#8220;zabbix&#8221;. Docker monitoring commands can be run only by the user if root or a user which is part of linux group called &#8220;docker&#8221;. thus, For the Zabbix agent to keep an eye on Docker containers, you need to add the Zabbix user, which is installed by default, to the docker group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$ sudo usermod -aG docker zabbix<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 5 &#8211; ReStart a Zabbix Agent<\/h2>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><span><code class=\"hljs\">$ sudo systemctl restart zabbix-agent2\n$ sudo systemctl enable zabbix-agent2\n$ sudo systemctl status zabbix-agent2\n\n<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 6 &#8211; Add the Docker Host to Zabbix Server for Monitoring<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 7 &#8211; Add the Docker Host with zabbix template &#8220;Docker by Zabbix agent&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-89-1024x524.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-89-1024x524.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-89-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-89-768x393.png 768w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-89-1536x785.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-89.png 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 8 &#8211; Create a few Dummy containers in Docker host<\/h2>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><span><code class=\"hljs\">$ docker run -itd ubuntu\n$ docker run -itd ubuntu\n$ docker run -itd ubuntu<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Step 9 &#8211; Validate Docker metrices at Zabbix front end Latest data.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now head back to the Zabbix server dashboard. Click on \u2018Monitoring\u2019 then \u2018Hosts\u2019. Click on the name of your Docker server and in the menu option that appears, select \u2018Latest data\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-90-1024x463.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-90-1024x463.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-90-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-90-768x347.png 768w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-90-1536x694.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-90.png 1819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1 &#8211; Install Docker Step 2 &#8211; Install Zabbix Agent 2 Step 3 &#8211; Configure Zabbix Agent 2 Step 4 &#8211; Fix the permission Zabbix Agent(\/usr\/sbin\/zabbix_agentd) and Zabbix Server(\/usr\/sbin\/zabbix_server)&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4862],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-docker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29058,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28975\/revisions\/29058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}