Change memory usage graph to use working bytes

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Docker Swarm instrumentation with Prometheus, Grafana, cAdvisor, Node Exporter and Alert Manager

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Change memory usage graph to use working bytes #125

Open RamaneekGill opened 4 years ago

RamaneekGill commented 4 years ago

The current memory usage calculation includes cached contents.

This can be misleading when monitoring docker services and can grow over time.

This blog post and the followup blog post show in more detail why container_memory_working_set_bytes is a good alternative to container_memory_usage_bytes.