topic Dashboard with PIDs in All Apps and Add-ons

Dashboard with PIDs

diasgiriaig — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:00:10 GMT

Hello,
Basically looking for a dashboard which gives you the data for CPU, memory and IO arranged with the process IDs. For example we have the bubble graph for the memory, cpu exhibiting which command is consuming the more memory and cpu, it will be great when I click on that big bubble it would take me to a graph which gives more granular data based on the process ids. Eg: if java command is the big bubble then clicking on that takes you to another time series graph with PIDs of various java process.

Re: Dashboard with PIDs

guilmxm — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 21:58:43 GMT

Hello @diasgiriaig !

I have seen your question (plus the git issue and email lol 😉

I get your point, I would say that basically the interest here is that you have Splunk here so you can easily take the existing dashboards, modify and/or combine parts of them to achieve the exact result that matches your goal and whishes.

To reply:

The TOP collection captures various metrics about processes, from CPU to different aspects of memory, IO wait time, etc
Have a look at the HOWTO interfaces to learn how about how to deal with these metrics with and build sample searches
Have a look at the TOP processes main user interface and the different dashboard that deal with these (like the bullet dashboard)

You can easily (and the interfaces provided allows you to do) filter on any java processes (process name filter), and perform various kind of calculation or aggregation if you need to so.
Bare in mind that what the TOP process collection provides is what the system sees, not necessary process internal metrics that need to be accessed differently (thinking about JMX in the case of java processes)

But I'm taking note of this, I tried different approaches for this but it is hard from a provider point to be to remain generic enough to be able to answers all use cases while providing best value.

Hope this makes sense !

Guilhem

Re: Dashboard with PIDs

diasgiriaig — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 23:54:44 GMT

Thanks a lot! 🙂 will try this out and get back to you in case of any issue.