# OpenShift: possible or not to monitor only one container?

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/openshift-possible-or-not-to-monitor-only-one-container/18868>\
**Category:** Container platforms\
**Tags:** openshift, docker\
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/openshift-possible-or-not-to-monitor-only-one-container/18868 "2020-03-25T07:57:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Romanenkov\_Alex](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/romanenkov_alex/32/27497_2.png) [@Romanenkov\_Alex](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Romanenkov_Alex)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/openshift-possible-or-not-to-monitor-only-one-container/18868/1 "2020-03-25T07:57:00Z")

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Hello community!

Customer is using OpenShift with other departments. We have container to monitoring. It is autorization.

We already have agent on autorization servers, but some external application work doing in small container. We need this data from small java application. Other departments are using \>500 containers on \>5 nodes. So we need to monitor only one container. Sometimes it moves from node to node.

As i know, we can monitor OpenShift only with Dynatrace OpenShift Operator.

How we can monitor only one contatiner in OpenShift?

I will be happy with any advice, thank you.

Regards,

Alexander

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**Author:** ![janusz\_dabrowsk](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/janusz_dabrowsk/32/17325_2.png) [@janusz\_dabrowsk](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/janusz_dabrowsk)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 8:03am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/openshift-possible-or-not-to-monitor-only-one-container/18868/2 "2020-03-25T08:03:08Z")

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Hi Alekasnder, you can deploy OneAgent on OpenShift for application-only monitoring

> **[Get started with Kubernetes platform monitoring + Application observability](https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/ingest-from/setup-on-k8s/deployment/application-observability)**
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> Deploy Dynatrace Operator in application monitoring mode to Kubernetes

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**Author:** ![Romanenkov\_Alex](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/romanenkov_alex/32/27497_2.png) [@Romanenkov\_Alex](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Romanenkov_Alex)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/openshift-possible-or-not-to-monitor-only-one-container/18868/3 "2020-03-25T08:11:42Z")

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Hello Janusz, Thank you for fast answer. Please, confirm:

if we do these: [Integrate at container build time](https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/technology-support/cloud-platforms/openshift/installation-and-operation/application-only/deploy-oneagent-on-openshift-for-application-only-monitoring/#expand-1575integrate-at-container-build-time) and [Integrate at container run time](https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/technology-support/cloud-platforms/openshift/installation-and-operation/application-only/deploy-oneagent-on-openshift-for-application-only-monitoring/#expand-1576integrate-at-container-run-time) we will have container with our agent, and others containers for other department will be same?

Regards,

Alexander

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**Author:** ![janusz\_dabrowsk](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/janusz_dabrowsk/32/17325_2.png) [@janusz\_dabrowsk](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/janusz_dabrowsk)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 8:17am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/openshift-possible-or-not-to-monitor-only-one-container/18868/4 "2020-03-25T08:17:39Z")

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Sure you don’t deploy operator so other containers are not affected