This is about accumulative values, I'm also asking about stats like CPU
usage of the VM\Host that is not reported in absolute value.
Can you bump the thread?
Yaniv Dary
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Francesco Romani <from...@redhat.com>
wrote:
>
> 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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