<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>We also looked into tendrl some time ago, but in an enterprise environment it simply can not be used (talking about 40+ gluster clusters), and it indeed randomly fails without proper ways to 'get it up' again.</div><div>Apart from regular process monitoring we also make use of a collectd plugin for gluster which works decent enough (https://github.com/gluster/gluster-collectd) and allows for gluster metrics, along-side system metrics to be monitored.</div><div><br></div><div>We don't even yet use all the metrics exposed by that collectd plugin, but as a sample dashboard we currently use something like:</div><div><img src="cid:be90941640979c47e9eb157241bfe78237bded0a@zimbra" data-mce-src="cid:be90941640979c47e9eb157241bfe78237bded0a@zimbra"></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Nico van Roijen</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>Van: </b>"Alvin Starr" <alvin@netvel.net><br><b>Aan: </b>"gluster-users" <gluster-users@gluster.org><br><b>Verzonden: </b>Dinsdag 27 oktober 2020 18:08:03<br><b>Onderwerp: </b>Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster monitoring</div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">We have been using zabbix for tracking gluster but that works because we are using zabbix for the rest of our monitoring of things like network and disk IO.<br><br>One thing to track that is not part of the usual suspects is the heal counts.<br>They should always be 0 unless you have a problem somewhere.<br><br><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/27/20 12:25 AM, Mahdi Adnan wrote:</div><blockquote><div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hello</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> How do you keep track of the health status of your Gluster volumes? When Brick went down (crash, failure, shutdown), node failure, peering issue, on-going healing?</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gluster Tendrl is complex and sometimes it's broken, Prometheus exporter still lacking, gstatus is basic.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently, to monitor a Gluster volume, a custom script should be used to gather whatever info needed for monitoring or a combination of the mentioned tools.</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can Gluster have something similar to Ceph and display the health of the entire cluster? I know Ceph uses it’s “Monitors” to keep track of everything going inside the cluster, but Gluster should also have a way to keep track of the cluster’s health.</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How’s the community experience with Gluster monitoring? How are you managing and tracking alerts and issues? Any recommendations?</span></p><span><span><br></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'arial'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you.</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Respectfully<div>Mahdi</div></div></div></div><br><fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset><pre class="moz-quote-pre">________
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