missing data and no version in output

[Sean Burlington]

I installed cadvisor together with prometheus from ubuntu sources and was puzzled to find a lot of data missing - crucially docker container names

Testing on command line I noticed I didn't even get a version output

/usr/bin/cadvisor -version
cAdvisor version ()

apt-cache policy cadvisor
cadvisor:
  Installed: 0.27.1+dfsg2-4
  Candidate: 0.27.1+dfsg2-4
  Version table:
 *** 0.27.1+dfsg2-4 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I then tried downloading the latest stable version from https://github.com/google/cadvisor

and it works fine

I dropped the binary in place of the Ubuntu version and now have all the data I expected

Version info outputs normally

/usr/bin/cadvisor -version
cAdvisor version v0.35.0 (49033161)

At first I thought it might be a docker/cadvisor version issue

But as the packaged cadvisor doesn't properly give a version number I wonder if something is wrong with the packaging/build process ?

[Sean Burlington (sean-practicalweb)]

I've just installed a new system with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and have the same issue

Looks like there is no cadvisor upgrade and the bug is still present

apt-cache policy cadvisor
cadvisor:
  Installed: 0.27.1+dfsg2-4
  Candidate: 0.27.1+dfsg2-4
  Version table:
 *** 0.27.1+dfsg2-4 500
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status