Fea/specify container to be collected

[bugre]

Add option to filter containers by 'name' attribute that will get stats collected.

[wywywywy]

Hi @bugre

Thank you for the PR, but I think I'm going to archive this repo as it's gotten quite out of date. Feel free to fork it if it fits your needs.

Thanks.

[bugre]

Hi @wywywywy , not a problem.
I've already forked and made the changes locally, but thought of sharing if it could help someone.
Thanks for letting me know.
If you don't mind asking, is there a better way of getting the docker stats of a container into prometheus as of today? (not in a k8s or swarm or other orchestration environment, but running a few containers manually? (aside from use/try directly the cgroups metrics)

[wywywywy]

If you don't mind asking, is there a better way of getting the docker stats of a container into prometheus as of today? (not in a k8s or swarm or other orchestration environment, but running a few containers manually? (aside from use/try directly the cgroups metrics)

I had a look a while ago, and to be honest I didn't find any lightweight exporter similar to this one unfortunately. :(

So this is still useful if someone takes the time to maintain it properly.