Hey, While people generally know (and agree) that cAdvisor is the guy in the room to keep track of container metrics, there’s a sort of hidden feature of the docker daemon that people don’t take into account: the daemon by itself can be monitored too - see Collect Docker Metrics with Prometheus. You indeed can determine whether the daemon is running by checking the systemd metrics via cAdvisor (if you’re running the Docker daemon as a systemd service), you can’t know much more than th...
