How Does Retrace Work with Containers?

The first step to running Retrace in a containerized environment is to install Retrace as a container on your host. See the following installation guides for containerized installations:

• Kubernetes Install
• Docker Install

Our pricing for containers is connected to the underlying host. You can run as many containers as you want on a single host and pair it with 1 agent instance and it would incur normal hours for only that 1 server.

If you integrate logging with Retrace, you would incur additional lite hours from each container on top of the normal hours.

E.g. if you have 5 containers on a single host, and 3 containers are sending logs to Retrace the calculation would be:

• 1 prod hour for all 5 containers on 1 host + 3 non prod hours (lite hours) for 3 containers sending logs = 1 prod hour equalling 2 prod hours in total.