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Container Service for Kubernetes:sandboxed-container-helper

Last Updated:Mar 26, 2026

sandboxed-container-helper performs health checks and operations and maintenance (O&M) on sandboxed containers in Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) clusters. It provides two core capabilities: disk space monitoring through a Prometheus exporter, and unusual event reporting to kube-apiserver.

Features

Device Mapper disk space monitoring

sandboxed-container-helper exposes a Prometheus exporter that collects disk space metrics for volumes allocated by Device Mapper. Deploy ack-arms-prometheus in your ACK cluster to scrape these metrics, visualize them in Grafana dashboards, and configure alerts. For more information, see Enable ARMS Prometheus.

Unusual event reporting

sandboxed-container-helper detects and reports unusual events to kube-apiserver, including storage leaks, container data leaks, and orphaned pods. Deploy ack-node-problem-detector in your ACK cluster to collect and monitor these events. ack-node-problem-detector forwards events to configured sinks, including DingTalk, Log Service, and EventBridge. For more information, see Event monitoring.

Usage notes

sandboxed-container-helper is installed by default in ACK clusters. No additional configuration is required.

Release notes

VersionImage addressRelease dateDescriptionImpact
v1.0.0-7a70086-aliyunregistry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/sandboxed-container-helper:v1.0.0-7a70086-aliyun2020-05-12New features:
  • Reports unusual events (container data leaks and orphaned pods) to kube-apiserver.
  • Monitors disk space allocated by Device Mapper.
  • Provides scripts for fixing system issues.
No impact on workloads