Experimental Jenkins monitoring
David Caro
dcaro at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 07:36:06 UTC 2016
On 04/17 23:55, Nadav Goldin wrote:
> >
> > I think that will change a lot per-project basis, if we can get that info
> > per
> > job, with grafana then we can aggregate and create secondary stats (like
> > bilds
> > per hour as you say).
> > So I'd say just to collect the 'bare' data, like job built event, job
> > ended,
> > duration and such.
>
> agree. will need to improve that, right now it 'pulls' each X seconds via
> the CLI,
> instead of Jenkins sending the events, so it is limited to what the CLI can
> provide and not that efficient. I plan to install [1] and do the opposite
> (Jenkins will send a POST request with the data on each build
> event and then it would be sent to graphite)
Amarchuk had already some ideas on integrating collectd with jenkins, imo that
will work well for 'master' related stats and more difficult for others like
job started, etc. but worth looking at it
>
> Have you checked the current ds fabric checks?
> > There are already a bunch of fabric tasks that monitor jenkins, if we
> > install
> > the nagiosgraph (see ds for details) to send the nagios performance data
> > into
> > graphite, we can use them as is to also start alarms and such
> >
> Icinga2 has integrated graphite support, so after the upgrade we will
> get all of our alarms data sent to graphite 'out-of-the-box'.
+1!
>
> >
> > dcaro at akhos$ fab -l | grep nagi
> > do.jenkins.nagios.check_build_load Checks if the
> > bui...
> > do.jenkins.nagios.check_executors Checks if the
> > exe...
> > do.jenkins.nagios.check_queue Check if the
> > buil...
> > do.provision.nagios_check Show a summary
> > of...
> >
> > Though those will not give you the bare data (were designed with nagios in
> > mind, not graphite so they are just checks, the stats were added later)
> >
> > There's also a bunch of helpers functions to create nagios checks too.
> >
>
> cool, wasn't aware of those fabric checks.
> I think for simple metrics(loads and such) we could use that(i.e. query
> Jenkins from fabric)
> but for more complicated queries we'd need to query graphite itself,
> with this[2] I could create scripts that query graphite and trigger Icinga
> alerts.
> such as: calculate the 'expected' slaves load for the next hour(in graphite)
> and then:
> Icinga queries graphite -> triggers another Icinga alert -> triggers custom
> script(such as
> fab task to create slaves)
I'd be careful with the reactions for now, but yes, that's great.
>
> for now, added two more metrics: top 10 jobs in past X time, and
> avg number of builds running / builds waiting in queue in the past X time.
> some metrics might 'glitch' from time to time as there is not a lot of data
> yet
> and it mainly counts integer values while graphite is oriented towards
> floats, so the data has to be smoothed(usually with movingAverage())
>
>
>
> [1]
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Statistics+Notification+Plugin
> [2] https://github.com/klen/graphite-beacon
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 9:39 AM, David Caro <dcaro at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On 04/15 01:24, Nadav Goldin wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I've created an experimental dashboard for Jenkins at our Grafana
> > instance:
> > > http://graphite.phx.ovirt.org/dashboard/db/jenkins-monitoring
> > > (if you don't have an account, you can enrol with github/google)
> >
> > Nice! \o/
> >
> > >
> > > currently it collects the following metrics:
> > > 1) How many jobs in the Build Queue are waiting per slaves' label:
> > >
> > > for instance: if there are 4 builds of a job that is restricted to 'el7'
> > > and 2 builds of another job
> > > which is restricted to 'el7' in the build queue we will see 6 for 'el7'
> > in
> > > the first graph.
> > > 'No label' sums jobs which are waiting but are unrestricted.
> > >
> > > 2) How many slaves are idle per label.
> > > note that the slave's labels are contained in the job's labels, but not
> > > vice versa, as
> > > we allow regex expressions such as (fc21 || fc22 ). right now it treats
> > > them as simple
> > > strings.
> > >
> > > 3) Total number of online/offline/idle slaves
> > >
> > > besides the normal monitoring, it can help us:
> > > 1) minimize the difference between 'idle' slaves per label and jobs
> > waiting
> > > in the build queue per label.
> > > this might be caused by unnecessary restrictions on the label, or maybe
> > by
> > > the
> > > 'Throttle Concurrent Builds' plugin.
> > > 2) decide how many VMs and which OS to install on the new hosts.
> > > 3) in the future, once we have the 'slave pools' implemented, we could
> > > implement
> > > auto-scaling based on thresholds or some other function.
> > >
> > >
> > > 'experimental' - as it still needs to be tested for stability(it is based
> > > on python-jenkins
> > > and graphite-send) and also more metrics can be added(maybe avg running
> > time
> > > per job? builds per hour? ) - will be happy to hear.
> >
> > I think that will change a lot per-project basis, if we can get that info
> > per
> > job, with grafana then we can aggregate and create secondary stats (like
> > bilds
> > per hour as you say).
> > So I'd say just to collect the 'bare' data, like job built event, job
> > ended,
> > duration and such.
> >
> > >
> > > I plan later to pack it all into independent fabric tasks(i.e. fab
> > > do.jenkins.slaves.show)
> >
> > Have you checked the current ds fabric checks?
> > There are already a bunch of fabric tasks that monitor jenkins, if we
> > install
> > the nagiosgraph (see ds for details) to send the nagios performance data
> > into
> > graphite, we can use them as is to also start alarms and such.
> >
> > dcaro at akhos$ fab -l | grep nagi
> > do.jenkins.nagios.check_build_load Checks if the
> > bui...
> > do.jenkins.nagios.check_executors Checks if the
> > exe...
> > do.jenkins.nagios.check_queue Check if the
> > buil...
> > do.provision.nagios_check Show a summary
> > of...
> >
> > Though those will not give you the bare data (were designed with nagios in
> > mind, not graphite so they are just checks, the stats were added later)
> >
> > There's also a bunch of helpers functions to create nagios checks too.
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Nadav
> >
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