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I am trying to start collectd inside docker and i have tried everything from running command to start collectd in dockerfile to using a script to running service collectd start to using supervisord but still not working

my supervisord.conf file is 

[unix_http_server]
file=/tmp/supervisor.sock   ; (the path to the socket file)

[supervisord]
logfile=/tmp/supervisord.log ; (main log file;default $CWD/supervisord.log)
logfile_maxbytes=50MB        ; (max main logfile bytes b4 rotation;default 50MB)
logfile_backups=10           ; (num of main logfile rotation backups;default 10)
loglevel=info                ; (log level;default info; others: debug,warn,trace)
pidfile=/tmp/supervisord.pid ; (supervisord pidfile;default supervisord.pid)
nodaemon=false               ; (start in foreground if true;default false)
minfds=1024                  ; (min. avail startup file descriptors;default 1024)
minprocs=200                 ; (min. avail process descriptors;default 200)
user=root            ;

; the below section must remain in the config file for RPC
; (supervisorctl/web interface) to work, additional interfaces may be
; added by defining them in separate rpcinterface: sections
[rpcinterface:supervisor]
supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = supervisor.rpcinterface:make_main_rpcinterface

[supervisorctl]
serverurl=unix:///tmp/supervisor.sock ; use a unix:// URL  for a unix socket

[program:collectd]
command=/usr/sbin/collectd -C /etc/collectd/collectd.conf -f
autostart=true
autorestart=true
priority=5
stdout_logfile=/dev/stdout
stdout_logfile_maxbytes=0
stderr_logfile=/dev/stderr
stderr_logfile_maxbytes=0

I also tried running it inside my Dockerfile

RUN service collectd start

By Dockerfile is using Ubuntu 16.04 and i installed collectd with apt-get install collectd which beautifully installs collectd version 5.5.1 for me(which is what i want)

Anyways when i run container and do ps aux i see

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.6  0.0  18180  2000 ?        Ss   20:27   0:00 bash
root        11  0.0  0.0  34364  1544 ?        R+   20:27   0:00 ps aux

so basically collectd is still not running

and inside container i start it with service collectd start and the it works fine

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0  18180  2008 ?        Ss   20:27   0:00 bash
root        27  0.0  0.0   4300   320 ?        Ss   20:27   0:00 /usr/sbin/collectdmon -P /var/run/collectd.pid -- -C /etc/collectd
root        30  0.0  0.0 799820  2368 ?        Sl   20:27   0:00 collectd -C /etc/collectd/collectd.conf -f
root        42  0.0  0.0  34364  1544 ?        R+   20:30   0:00 ps aux

So basically how do i get to run collectd automatically when docker image is ran?

P.S Even if i dont have to use supervisrod, fine i just want a way to have collectd running when i run the container

Thanks

UPDATE: Also a single collectd command ran inside the container also starts collectd

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0  18180  2020 ?        Ss   21:09   0:00 bash
root        36  0.0  0.0 799820  1680 ?        Ssl  21:10   0:00 collectd
root        47  0.0  0.0  34364  1544 ?        R+   21:10   0:00 ps aux
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You don't need supervisor for container with collectd.

For example you have created image with name "my_collectd:latest", then you need to run following command:

docker run -d --name my_test my_collectd:latest collectd -f

This will create container in daemon mode with name "my_test". It should run collectd -f command inside.

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  • works!!! for some reason i tried that before but did not use the `-d` daemon parameter because gave up on it dying after running..thanks man! – uberrebu Jul 18 '16 at 20:41