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How to monitor thread count for apps in Hawkular metrics in Grafana?


I'm working on creating a dashboard where I can monitor the thread count for apps which are present in hawkular-metrics from openshift. (The datasource is already configured).

I do have a json file for creating dashbboard for memory usage for all the pods in our openshift project. But how do I modify it to display thread count for the pods in hawkular metrics. Currently it is displaying Average, Min and Max memory etc for all the apps in out openshift project.

The descriptor name used for memory usage in tags inside the json file is memory/usage. What would be the descriptor name for thread count? And are there any modifications that I should do. Does Hawkular actually export thread count related metrics?

Here's the json file for memory usage:

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Please provide any suggestions that would be helpful. Is there any documentation that I can look at for the list of metrics that hawkular provides?


Solution

  • I am not aware of any thread count metric in openshift w/ hawkular.

    It's using heapster under the hood, see the metrics here: https://github.com/kubernetes-retired/heapster/blob/master/docs/storage-schema.md#metrics.

    But I'm not 100% sure if all of them are reported into hawkular.