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--add-dir-header=false

If true, adds the file directory to the header of the log messages

--alsologtostderr=false

log to standard error as well as files

--application-metrics-count-limit=100

Max number of application metrics to store (per container)

--as=""

Username to impersonate for the operation

--as-group=[]

Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.

--azure-container-registry-config=""

Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration information.

--boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"

Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first one that exists.

--cache-dir="/home/user/.kube/cache"

Default cache directory

--certificate-authority=""

Path to a cert file for the certificate authority

--client-certificate=""

Path to a client certificate file for TLS

--client-key=""

Path to a client key file for TLS

--cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16

CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health checks

--cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,209.85.152.0/22,209.85.204.0/22,35.191.0.0/16

CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health checks

--cluster=""

The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use

--container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"

location of the container hints file

--containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock"

containerd endpoint

--containerd-namespace="k8s.io"

containerd namespace

--context=""

The name of the kubeconfig context to use

--default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300

Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.

--default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300

Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.

--disable-root-cgroup-stats=false

Disable collecting root Cgroup stats

--docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock";

docker endpoint

--docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""

a comma-separated list of environment variable keys matched with specified prefix that needs to be collected for docker containers

--docker-only=false

Only report docker containers in addition to root stats

--docker-root="/var/lib/docker"

DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)

--docker-tls=false

use TLS to connect to docker

--docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"

path to trusted CA

--docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"

path to client certificate

--docker-tls-key="key.pem"

path to private key

--enable-load-reader=false

Whether to enable cpu load reader

--event-storage-age-limit="default=0"

Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default is applied to all non-specified event types

--event-storage-event-limit="default=0"

Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is applied to all non-specified event types

--global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s

Interval between global housekeepings

--housekeeping-interval=10s

Interval between container housekeepings

--insecure-skip-tls-verify=false

If true, the server’s certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

--kubeconfig=""

use a particular kubeconfig file

--log-backtrace-at=:0

when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace

--log-cadvisor-usage=false

Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container

--log-dir=""

If non-empty, write log files in this directory

--log-file=""

If non-empty, use this log file

--log-file-max-size=1800

Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited.

--log-flush-frequency=5s

Maximum number of seconds between log flushes

--logtostderr=true

log to standard error instead of files

--machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"

Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the first one that exists.

--match-server-version=false

Require server version to match client version

-n, --namespace=""

If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request

--one-output=false

If true, only write logs to their native severity level (vs also writing to each lower severity level

--password=""

Password for basic authentication to the API server

--profile="none"

Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)

--profile-output="profile.pprof"

Name of the file to write the profile to

--referenced-reset-interval=0

Reset interval for referenced bytes (container_referenced_bytes metric), number of measurement cycles after which referenced bytes are cleared, if set to 0 referenced bytes are never cleared (default: 0)

--request-timeout="0"

The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don’t timeout requests.

-s, --server=""

The address and port of the Kubernetes API server

--skip-headers=false

If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages

--skip-log-headers=false

If true, avoid headers when opening log files

--stderrthreshold=2

logs at or above this threshold go to stderr

--storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s

Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction

--storage-driver-db="cadvisor"

database name

--storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"

database host:port

--storage-driver-password="root"

database password

--storage-driver-secure=false

use secure connection with database

--storage-driver-table="stats"

table name

--storage-driver-user="root"

database username

--tls-server-name=""

Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used

--token=""

Bearer token for authentication to the API server

--update-machine-info-interval=5m0s

Interval between machine info updates.

--user=""

The name of the kubeconfig user to use

--username=""

Username for basic authentication to the API server

-v, --v=0

number for the log level verbosity

--version=false

Print version information and quit

--vmodule=

comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging

--warnings-as-errors=false

Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code