Podman Monitoring

Note that currently this is an either-or situation. You can either use the Podman API or the Docker API, but not both at the same time. If you need both, let me know and I'll add it at some point.

Start and enable the Podman API

This runs the REST API service as a regular user on any Linux machine with Podman installed:

systemctl --user enable podman.socket
systemctl --user start podman.socket

Restart the agent to allow it to connect to the Podman API.

Permissions

You must run the agent as the same user that runs Podman.

beszel-agent.service

[Service]
User=beszel 
User=1000 

podman run

podman run -d \
  --name beszel-agent \
  --user 1000 \
  --network host \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
  -e KEY="<public key>" \
  -e LISTEN=45876 \
  docker.io/henrygd/beszel-agent:latest

Specifying a different socket path

The agent checks for the Podman socket at /run/user/{uid}/podman/podman.sock.

If you need to use a different path, specify it in the DOCKER_HOST environment variable: DOCKER_HOST=unix:///path/to/podman.sock.