Podman Container Metrics Dashboard - Monitor Hosts

Use this dashboard to monitor the containers on your Podman hosts across CPU, memory, and block I/O.

Every panel filters on container.runtime = 'podman', so the dashboard stays correct on a host that also runs Docker.

Dashboard Coverage

Use these panels to:

• Size up the host: See how many containers report, and the average CPU and memory across them.
• Compare containers: Rank CPU and memory use per container to find the heaviest workload.
• Spot memory pressure: Compare the memory use of each container against its limit, before the kernel stops the container.
• Track disk activity: Watch block I/O read and write rates per container.

Metrics Included

Overview

• Containers Reporting: Number of containers currently sending metrics.
• Avg CPU % and Avg Memory %: Mean CPU and memory use across containers.
• Total Memory Used: Combined memory use of all containers.
• Containers: Table of every container with its image, CPU, memory, and memory used.

CPU

• CPU Percent: CPU use per container (container.cpu.percent).
• CPU Cores Used: CPU cores consumed per container, from container.cpu.usage.total.

Memory

• Memory Percent: Memory use against the container limit (container.memory.percent).
• Memory Usage: Memory consumed per container (container.memory.usage.total).
• Memory Usage vs Limit: Memory use against the configured limit (container.memory.usage.limit). A container with no limit reports the host memory as its limit.
• Memory Share by Container: The share of total memory use for each container.

Block I/O

• Block I/O Read and Block I/O Write: Bytes read from and written to disk per container.

Dashboard Variables

Use these filter variables:

• host.name: Filter to the containers on one Podman host.
• container.name: Filter to a single container.

Limitations

The dashboard also ships System CPU Cores Used, Network Bytes Received, and Network Bytes Sent. On Podman 5.x these three panels stay empty, because the podman_stats receiver reports no value for the metrics behind them. Use podman stats for network traffic until the receiver is fixed. See Limitations in the setup guide.

Related Dashboards

• Docker Container Metrics
• Host Metrics
• Kubernetes Pod Metrics - Detailed