From a86ca5b43137401e17dc1ca16622fa857baa47cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Heinemann Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 08:59:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add glossary entry for cadvisor --- .../concepts/architecture/garbage-collection.md | 3 ++- content/en/docs/reference/glossary/cadvisor.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 content/en/docs/reference/glossary/cadvisor.md diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/architecture/garbage-collection.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/architecture/garbage-collection.md index 7c70675fff..bec39b4dd5 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/concepts/architecture/garbage-collection.md +++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/architecture/garbage-collection.md @@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ resource type. ### Container image lifecycle Kubernetes manages the lifecycle of all images through its *image manager*, -which is part of the kubelet, with the cooperation of cadvisor. The kubelet +which is part of the kubelet, with the cooperation of +{{< glossary_tooltip text="cadvisor" term_id="cadvisor" >}}. The kubelet considers the following disk usage limits when making garbage collection decisions: diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/cadvisor.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/cadvisor.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..300c9f14c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/cadvisor.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: cAdvisor +id: cadvisor +date: 2021-12-09 +full_link: https://github.com/google/cadvisor/ +short_description: > + Tool that provides understanding of the resource usage and perfomance characteristics for containers +aka: +tags: +- tool +--- +cAdvisor (Container Advisor) provides container users an understanding of the resource usage and performance characteristics of their running {{< glossary_tooltip text="containers" term_id="container" >}}. + + + +It is a running daemon that collects, aggregates, processes, and exports information about running containers. Specifically, for each container it keeps resource isolation parameters, historical resource usage, histograms of complete historical resource usage and network statistics. This data is exported by container and machine-wide.