docker stats block I/O is always 0 on windows
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Description
Description
A user of the Resource Usage extension reported that on Windows the disk usage is always 0.
I tried it and compared it with the docker stats output. In both cases the value is 0.
Reproduce
- start an ELK compose stack from awesome-compose
- run
docker stats
This docker stats on Windows

This docker stats on mac os

Expected behavior
On Windows docker stats should display the real numbers.
docker version
Client:
Cloud integration: v1.0.29
Version: 20.10.21
API version: 1.41
Go version: go1.18.7
Git commit: baeda1f
Built: Tue Oct 25 18:08:16 2022
OS/Arch: windows/amd64
Context: default
Experimental: true
Server: Docker Desktop 4.14.0 (91374)
Engine:
Version: 20.10.21
API version: 1.41 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.18.7
Git commit: 3056208
Built: Tue Oct 25 18:00:19 2022
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
containerd:
Version: 1.6.9
GitCommit: 1c90a442489720eec95342e1789ee8a5e1b9536f
runc:
Version: 1.1.4
GitCommit: v1.1.4-0-g5fd4c4d
docker-init:
Version: 0.19.0
GitCommit: de40ad0
docker info
Client:
Context: default
Debug Mode: false
Plugins:
buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc., v0.9.1)
compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc., v2.12.2)
dev: Docker Dev Environments (Docker Inc., v0.0.3)
extension: Manages Docker extensions (Docker Inc., v0.2.13)
sbom: View the packaged-based Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) for an image (Anchore Inc., 0.6.0)
scan: Docker Scan (Docker Inc., v0.21.0)
Server:
Containers: 8
Running: 4
Paused: 0
Stopped: 4
Images: 12
Server Version: 20.10.21
Storage Driver: overlay2
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Supports d_type: true
Native Overlay Diff: true
userxattr: false
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Cgroup Version: 1
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc io.containerd.runc.v2 io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 1c90a442489720eec95342e1789ee8a5e1b9536f
runc version: v1.1.4-0-g5fd4c4d
init version: de40ad0
Security Options:
seccomp
Profile: default
Kernel Version: 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Operating System: Docker Desktop
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 8
Total Memory: 7.67GiB
Name: docker-desktop
ID: DZAR:5QT6:I6QW:22MS:SUOQ:BT3V:3S22:3PJJ:JVVQ:HQVT:GVJM:JSJK
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode: false
HTTP Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
HTTPS Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
No Proxy: hubproxy.docker.internal
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Labels:
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
hubproxy.docker.internal:5000
127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false
Additional Info
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with the ELK compose stack and comparing docker stats block I/O output on Windows and macOS. Trace the docker stats path responsible for block I/O reporting; done when Windows displays the real numbers instead of 0.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- docker, go
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100