On 02/26/2017 03:13 PM, Yaniv Dary wrote: > >> 2. collectd *intentionally* report metrics as rates, not as >> absolute >> values as Vdsm does. This may be one issue in presence of >> restarts/data >> loss in the link between collectd and the metrics store. >> >> >> How does this work? >> If we want to show memory usage over time for example, we need to >> have the usage, not the rate. >> How would this be reported? > > I was imprecise, my fault. > > Let me retry: > collectd intentionally report quite a lot of metrics we care about > as rates, not as absolute values. > Memory is actually ok fine. > > a0/virt/disk_octets-hdc -> rate > a0/virt/disk_octets-vda > a0/virt/disk_ops-hdc -> rate > a0/virt/disk_ops-vda > a0/virt/disk_time-hdc -> rate > a0/virt/disk_time-vda > a0/virt/if_dropped-vnet0 -> rate > a0/virt/if_errors-vnet0 -> rate > a0/virt/if_octets-vnet0 -> rate > a0/virt/if_packets-vnet0 -> rate > a0/virt/memory-actual_balloon -> absolute > a0/virt/memory-rss -> absolute > a0/virt/memory-total -> absolute > a0/virt/ps_cputime -> rate > a0/virt/total_requests-flush-hdc -> rate > a0/virt/total_requests-flush-vda > a0/virt/total_time_in_ms-flush-hdc -> rate > a0/virt/total_time_in_ms-flush-vda > a0/virt/virt_cpu_total -> rate > a0/virt/virt_vcpu-0 -> rate > a0/virt/virt_vcpu-1 > > collectd "just" reports the changes since the last sampling. I'm > not sure which is the best way to handle that; I've sent a mail to > collectd list some time ago, no answer so far. > > > Can you CC on that thread? > I don't know how ES would work with rates at all. > I want to be able to show CPU usage over time and I need to know if > its 80% or 10%. >
Thanks to the awkward gmail interface I can't reply to myself and CC other people, but I can share the link: https://mailman.verplant.org/pipermail/collectd/2017-January/006965.html -- Francesco Romani Red Hat Engineering Virtualization R & D IRC: fromani
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