Programmatic container monitoring

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions which, when executed, cause performance of a method of monitoring programmatic containers (containers) through executing a monitoring component in a user space, the method comprising:

• selecting, by a processor, one or more execution points from a plurality of execution points;
• causing, by the processor, a computer program to be loaded into a virtual machine,
• the virtual machine verifying execution of the computer program before running the computer program in a kernel space;
• causing the computer program to be executed directly in the kernel space when execution of a process associated with one of a plurality of containers reaches the one execution point,
• each of the plurality of containers being associated with a distinct set of resources of a kernel of the kernel space,
• the computer program storing specific data in one or more memory buffers managed directly by the kernel and shared by the kernel space and the user space,
• the specific data including trace data related to execution of the process at the one execution point and container data related to the one container;
• receiving the specific data from the one or more memory buffers;
• causing display of container-specific trace data.