This seems like a fine idea to me.  All the counters I'm aware of are
available via DBUS.

Daniel

On 7/14/20 2:12 AM, Bjorn Leffler via Devel wrote:
> Apart from the counters that you can access through dbus, is there any
> other monitoring built into Ganesha?
>
> I'm thinking of adding it with this higher level plan:
> - Exporting metrics from Ganesha to Prometheus.
> - Aggregate data in Prometheus.
> - Display monitoring consoles and graphs with Grafana.
> - Package up Prometheus, Grafana and the preconfigured rules/dashboards
> as a Docker image.
> - This makes it straightforward to deploy monitoring alongside a Gansha
> binary.
>
> My rough coding plan for the code is to:
> - Add a USE_MONITORING directive to the CMakeLists.txt files.
> - Add a build dependency to the Prometheus C client
> <https://github.com/digitalocean/prometheus-client-c>.
> - Create a src/monitoring directory for the new source files and templates.
> - Increment counters and timers throughout the code.
> - Use histograms to compute latency percentiles, heatmaps, etc.
>
> Is this a good idea? Any objections or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Bjorn
>
>
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