hi,
Quite a few commands to monitor gluster at the moment take almost a second to give output.
Some categories of these commands:
1) Any command that needs to do some sort of mount/glfs_init.
Examples: 1) heal info family of commands 2) statfs to find space-availability etc (On my laptop replica 3 volume with all local bricks, glfs_init takes 0.3 seconds on average)
2) glusterd commands that need to wait for the previous command to unlock. If the previous command is something related to lvm snapshot which takes quite a few seconds, it would be even more time consuming.
Nowadays container workloads have hundreds of volumes if not thousands. If we want to serve any monitoring solution at this scale (I have seen customers use upto 600 volumes at a time, it will only get bigger) and lets say collecting metrics per volume takes 2 seconds per volume(Let us take the worst example which has all major features enabled like snapshot/geo-rep/quota etc etc), that will mean that it will take 20 minutes to collect metrics of the cluster with 600 volumes. What are the ways in which we can make this number more manageable? I was initially thinking may be it is possible to get gd2 to execute commands in parallel on different volumes, so potentially we could get this done in ~2 seconds. But quite a few of the metrics need a mount or equivalent of a mount(glfs_init) to collect different information like statfs, number of pending heals, quota usage etc. This may lead to high memory usage as the size of the mounts tend to be high.
I wanted to seek suggestions from others on how to come to a conclusion about which path to take and what problems to solve.
Pranith
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