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What does cAdvisor provide that application-level metrics don't?

Container-level resource usage metrics (CPU, memory, network, disk I/O) derived directly from cgroups, independent of whether the application itself exposes any custom metrics — useful for infrastructure-level visibility even into containers that don't instrument themselves.

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