Patent ID: 9747119
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method to monitor containers in computing environments, the method comprising: determining, by executing a monitoring agent with a processor, a status of a computing resource of a computing host that is operating a container engine, the monitoring agent executing outside of a first container hosted by the container engine; comparing, by executing the monitoring agent with the processor, the status to a threshold; and in response to determining that the status meets the threshold, transmitting, by executing the monitoring agent with the processor, a first instruction to the container engine to cause a monitoring operation to be executed within the first container hosted by the container engine to return monitoring information from within the first container to the monitoring agent executing outside of the first container; and transmitting, by executing the monitoring agent with the processor, a second instruction to the container engine to cause the container engine to execute the monitoring operation in a second container.