Running Glances in Docker container and can't see other docker container stats.

[Matt Bridges]

Hi,
I'm running glances in a container with the following docker compose yaml. 

 monitoring:

    image: nicolargo/glances:latest-alpine

    restart: always

    volumes:

      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

    environment:

      - "GLANCES_OPT=-w"

    ports:

      - "61208:61208"

I'd like glances to monitor and show stats for the other docker containers I am running but it only does that if I install glances on my host with pip install glances. Is there a way for the docker container glances to monitor the other docker container? 
Thanks,

Matt

[Tom Clerehan]

I'm running into the same issue when using docker-compose - no container stats visible in the web interface. However, if I use docker-run with the same parameters, it works as expected.

docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro --pid host --network host -it docker.io/nicolargo/glances

Compared to the compose file:

  glances:
    container_name: glances
    image: nicolargo/glances:latest-alpine
    restart: always
    pid: host
    network_mode: host
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
      - /home/user/.docker/glances:/glances/conf
    environment:
      - "GLANCES_OPT=-w"

Have tried with "61208:61208" as "network_mode: host" in the compose file, but no difference. 

[Matt Bridges]

Same here but not found a solution yet...

[Tom Clerehan]

Forgot to mention that the same issue applies to net stats; visible when running in CLI but not in the webUI.

Would really love a simple fix to this, it looks like I could work around it with some Grafana/influxdb setup but I was hoping to use Glances standalone to avoid adding that much more complexity to my environment.