Collecting metrics

Now, you have cAdvisor running; what do you need to do to configure the service in order to start collecting metrics? The short answer is, nothing at all. When you started the cAdvisor process, it instantly started polling your host machine to find out what containers are running and gathered information on both the running containers and your host machine.

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