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Chainguard Image for metricbeat

Metricbeat fetches a set of metrics on a predefined interval from the operating system and services such as Apache web server, Redis, and more and ships them to Elasticsearch or Logstash.

Chainguard Images are regularly-updated, minimal container images with low-to-zero CVEs.

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This image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/metricbeat:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard registry.

Please refer to the official Metricbeat documentation for instructions on how to work with the metricbeat Chainguard Image.

Example usage of the metricbeat Image

  1. Metricbeat requires kube-state-metrics to be installed. Please refer to the following manifests provided by the upstream maintainers to deploy.

  2. There are no actively supported helm charts for deploying metricbeat upstream. The most recent are present here and were archived in 2023. Manifest based deployments are offered as an alternative by the upstream maintainers here.

Note: Ensure to override the image properties to use the Chainguard provided image for metricbeat.

Note: You configure Metricbeat to write to a specific output by setting options in the Outputs section of the metricbeat.yml config file (Reference). In the manifests provided above, it can be done here.

Note: Make sure to change the image in the daemonset the Chainguard metricbeat Image.

  1. The above manifests will bring metricbeat up in kube-system namespace. And you will be able to see metricbeat output in *.ndjson file in /usr/share/metricbeat/output directory in metricbeat pod.

Contact Support

If you have a Zendesk account (typically set up for you by your Customer Success Manager) you can reach out to Chainguard's Customer Success team through our Zendesk portal.

What are Chainguard Images?

Chainguard Images are a collection of container images designed for security and minimalism.

Many Chainguard Images are distroless; they contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These images do not even contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Images are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Images include:

-dev Variants

As mentioned previously, Chainguard’s distroless Images have no shell or package manager by default. This is great for security, but sometimes you need these things, especially in builder images. For those cases, most (but not all) Chainguard Images come paired with a -dev variant which does include a shell and package manager.

Although the -dev image variants have similar security features as their distroless versions, such as complete SBOMs and signatures, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. The general recommendation is to use the -dev variants only to build the application and then copy all application artifacts into a distroless image, which will result in a final container image that has a minimal attack surface and won’t allow package installations or logins.

That being said, it’s worth noting that -dev variants of Chainguard Images are completely fine to run in production environments. After all, the -dev variants are still more secure than many popular container images based on fully-featured operating systems such as Debian and Ubuntu since they carry less software, follow a more frequent patch cadence, and offer attestations for what they include.

Learn More

To better understand how to work with Chainguard Images, we encourage you to visit Chainguard Academy, our documentation and education platform.

Licenses

Chainguard Images contain software packages that are direct or transitive dependencies. The following licenses were found in the "latest" version of this image:

  • Apache-2.0

  • GCC-exception-3.1

  • GPL-2.0-only

  • GPL-2.0-or-later

  • GPL-3.0-or-later

  • LGPL-2.1-or-later

  • MIT

For a complete list of licenses, please refer to this Image's SBOM.

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Compliance

A FIPS validated version of this image is available for FedRAMP compliance. STIG is included with FIPS image.


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