Hi Wido, On 14.12.2017 12:44, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > Hey Wido, > > On 12/14/2017 10:24 AM, Wido den Hollander wrote: > >> After discussing with Sage I started to work [0] on a 'brag' module for >> Ceph Manager. > Nice! +1 great idea! >> The intention of this module is to send (after a opt-in!) statistics >> about a Ceph cluster back to the project every few days. >> >> My intention is to include: >> >> - fsid (as identifier) >> - number of MONs >> - number of OSDs >> - FileStore / BlueStore >> - number of pools / PGs >> - data used in bytes >> - data free >> - number of objects, >> - version(s) > Not sure if that could actually be extracted, but how about "Services > enabled", e.g. "RGW", "CephFS" or "RBD", with some additional insight > (e.g. how many RBDs/buckets)? > > I think it would be valuable to obtain some (optional) insight into what > that cluster is actually used for. Two things. It would be really nice if the user could specify which of those options they're willing to share, so these should be configurable. Another thing I would like to add here is "performance" of the overall cluster in general. So iop's/throughput/latency and so on. This way a user could also check how the performance of their cluster evolved over time. Pretty nifty example: After a user upgraded their cluster to the newest release was their a big performance win or drop maybe caused by this update? This would be really helpful for everyone. > >> A admin can also say that the report is allowed to be 'public' where you >> can then visit (for example) https://brag.ceph.com/public/<fsid> and >> show off your Ceph cluster. >> >> You could then add a description and we could compile top lists about >> Ceph systems. >> >> How do people think about this? Would this be interesting? > Absolutely. One challenge I can see here (in addition to users actually > enabling it) is networking - I'd assume that many customers have > restricted their networks, so the MGR cannot easily establish an > outgoing connection without going through a proxy or before the admin > has poked a hole into the firewall. This might require configuration > options or corresponding documentation. That true indeed, but I think customers who are willing to send reports don't have a problem to route or open this port within their firewall. >> I would try to convince most of my customers to send this information >> back to the project. The more information we get, the better Ceph can >> become. >> >> Wido >> >> [0]: https://github.com/wido/ceph/commits/mgr-brag > Nice work! > > Lenz > -- SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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