[blackbird-xfs] Monitor xfs with blackbird

A little strange story It is an example that you can use it not only for middleware but also for this kind of usage.

blackbird xfs plugin

This plugin gets various information from / proc / fs / xfs / stat and sends the data to the backend

read/write bytes

read statistics

transaction&log statistics

write statistics

You will be able to take such a graph

The contents of / proc / fs / xfs / stat are like this

/proc/fs/xfs/stat

extent_alloc 237924 2165708 236223 2146331
abt 0 0 0 0
blk_map 7853715 2395617 465507 235483 252144 10725562 0
bmbt 0 0 0 0
dir 681659 330194 327757 265257
trans 4 3906407 226656
ig 0 145020 0 184316 0 138245 797142
log 15381 529947 883 14762 4527
push_ail 4798418 0 1957554 39739 0 11943 0 334634 0 3197
xstrat 223749 0
rw 3139114 9057686
attr 366943 281834 665204 2
icluster 24257 18636 375003
vnodes 4294689189 0 0 0 278107 278107 278107 0
buf 5725391 21967 5704136 1688 1294 21255 0 28943 5322
abtb2 477443 3347640 23420 23417 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6300911
abtc2 924783 6545480 462393 462390 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60569372
bmbt2 479 2767 24 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8
ibt2 851476 7733093 2428 2396 0 0 22874 372 0 0 0 0 0 0 408098
qm 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
xpc 8782831616 8104431965 21835555278
debug 0

I think it's information that you don't usually see, but it may be useful to monitor it.

Install

blackbird body

Please install by referring to here

Install xfs plugin

You can either use setup.py or rpm.

install with setup.py

git clone https://github.com/Vagrants/blackbird-xfs.git
cd blackbird-xfs
python setup.py install

install with rpm

yum install blackbird-xfs --enablerepo=blackbird

Set plugin

The config is in /etc/blackbird/conf.d/xfs.cfg, but usually there is nothing to mess with.

ini:/etc/blackbird/conf.d/xfs.cfg

[xfs]
module = 'xfs'

The default monitoring interval is 60 seconds, but if you want to change it

ini:/etc/blackbird/conf.d/xfs.cfg

interval = 30

Please specify as

Reboot blackbird when you're done

sudo /etc/init.d/blackbird restart

Check if data is coming in on Zabbix

Zabbix Templates can be found in the github repository Please import to Zabbix and apply to the target server

** If the host name on Zabbix and the host name of the server on which blackbird is running are different, you need to set the hostname on /etc/blackbird/conf.d/xfs.cfg ** Please match with Zabbix

ini:/etc/blackbird/conf.d/xfs.cfg

hostname = your_static_hostname

Other

• Honestly, I did my own kernel research to find out what each value of / proc / fs / xfs / stat means, but I'm not very confident.
• I would like an expert to tell me what value to look at when looking at xfs performance and bottlenecks.