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+# Docker Container Stats
+A web interface for viewing historical and current statistics per docker container (cpu, mem, net i/o, block i/o) - in a docker container.
+
+Pull and run daemonized:
+```
+docker pull virtualzone/docker-container-stats
+docker run \
+        -d \
+        -p 8080:8080 \
+        --volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro \
+        --volume=/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
+        --volume=/home/docker/storage/stats/db:/opt/docker-stats/db \
+        --name stats \
+        virtualzone/docker-container-stats
+```
+
+Mounting the volumes /var/lib/docker and /var/run/docker.sock (read-only) is required so that the docker container can retrieve the statistics for the containers.
+
+Mounting the volume /opt/docker-stats/db is optional. You can use it if you want to persist the SQLite database.