Performance Monitoring of Red Hat Satellite 6 using satperf

Continuous time-series metric collection of Satellite  & all Capsules are essential while satellite running at scale.

This post is helps to configure & monitor metrics using satellite-performance

1) Tools:

• Collectd – Daemon to collect System Performance Statistics
  • Collects CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, Per Process stats (Regex), Postgresql, mongodb, turbostat, qpid, foreman, DynFlow, Passenger, Puppet, Tomcat, collectd..etc
• Graphite/Carbon
  • Carbon receives metrics, and flushes them to whisper database files
  • Graphite is webapp frontend to carbon
• Grafana – Visualize metrics from multiple backends.
  • Dashboards saved in json and customized by Ansible during deployment

2) Architecture

3) How do i configure performance?

Archit has come up with a nice blog for configuration

Description of metrics collected in satperf:
http://arcolife.github.io/blog/2016/10/05/monitoring-in-satperf-metrics-collection

Monitoring Setup:  http://arcolife.github.io/blog/2016/08/22/setting-up-collectd-plugins-for-red-hat-satellite-with-graphite-and-grafana/

4)  Example Graphs

4.1 )  Passenger Mem

4.2) Postgresql DB (candlepin & foreman)

4.3) Candlepin DB

4.4) Puppet Registrations

4.2) Dynflow Mem

Thanks to Archit, Jhutar for providing inputs & help!