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Docs feedback: Document proper permissions for running cAdvisor #990

Open jmgilman opened 5 months ago

jmgilman commented 5 months ago

URL

https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/reference/components/prometheus.exporter.cadvisor/

Feedback

The documentation fails to mention that the default installation of Alloy is unlikely to have the proper permissions to run cAdvisor correctly. After configuring the cAdvisor component on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 system with Docker CE installed, the following error is generated:

Jun 06 01:25:35 dbsync alloy[17021]: ts=2024-06-05T23:25:35.921854424Z level=error msg="Failed to create existing container: /system.slice/docker-f9cf9c3bf054a2b0e16b26271ba1b8b7b4df829f5584dcdfbee20df0304e7e9b.scope: failed to identify the read-write layer ID for container \"f9cf9c3bf054a2b0e16b26271ba1b8b7b4df829f5584dcdfbee20df0304e7e9b\". - open /var/lib/docker/image/overlay2/layerdb/mounts/f9cf9c3bf054a2b0e16b26271ba1b8b7b4df829f5584dcdfbee20df0304e7e9b/mount-id: permission denied" component_path=/ component_id=prometheus.exporter.cadvisor.integrations_cadvisor func=Errorf

I tried adding the default alloy user to the docker group but the error persists. At this point, I am unsure of what additional permissions are needed beyond running the service as root. Can I please get clarification on how to run this component?

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SerheoReutty commented 4 months ago

Hello! Please, tell me! Did you solve the problem? I just ran into the same problem and can't find a solution.

k4nzdroid commented 3 months ago

I got the same problem with Docker 24.0.2 and Grafana Alloy v1.3.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.

After modifying the User=, the problem was soleved.

# systemctl edit alloy.service
[Service]
User=root

Before that, I tried to adduser alloy root, but it doesn't work.

The docker folder is not allowed to be read by non-owners:

# ls -l /var/lib/ | grep -E 'docker|snapd'
drwx--x--- 12 root               root          4096 Jul 18 16:41 docker
drwxr-xr-x 23 root               root          4096 Aug  6 22:46 snapd

# sudo -u alloy ls /var/lib/snapd/
apparmor    auto-import  cgroup  dbus-1   device       features   hostfs   lib    seccomp   snaps  state.json  system-key
assertions  cache        cookie  desktop  environment  firstboot  inhibit  mount  sequence  ssl    state.lock  void

# sudo -u alloy ls /var/lib/docker/
ls: cannot open directory '/var/lib/docker/': Permission denied