1. A method to monitor containers in computing environments, the method comprising: determining, by executing a monitoring agent with a processor, a status of a computing resource of a computing host that is operating a container engine, the monitoring agent executing outside of a container hosted by the container engine; comparing, by executing the monitoring agent with the processor, the status to a threshold; and in response to determining that the status meets the threshold, causing, by executing the monitoring agent with the processor, a monitoring operation to be executed within the container hosted by the container engine to return monitoring information from within the container to the monitoring agent executing outside of the container.