![Graphite’s capabilities
• Each metric is in its own bucket
• Periods make folders
• prod.syseng.mmm.<hostname>.admin_offline
• Metric types
• Counters
• Gauge
• Retention can be set using a regex
• [mysql]
• pattern = ^prod.syseng.mysql..*$
• retentions = 2s:1d,1m:3d,5m:7d,1h:5y
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![Example configuration
[daemon]
logfile = /var/log/mysql_statsd/daemon.log
pidfile = /var/run/mysql_statsd.pid
[statsd]
host = localhost
port = 8125
prefix = prd.mysql
include_hostname = true
[mysql]
host = localhost
username = mysqlstatsd
password =ub3rs3cr3tp@ss!
stats_types = status,variables,innodb,commit
query_variables = SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES
interval_variables = 10000
query_status = SHOW GLOBAL STATUS
interval_status = 500
query_innodb = SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS
interval_innodb = 10000
query_commit = COMMIT
interval_commit = 5000
sleep_interval = 500
[metrics]
variables.max_connections = g
status.max_used_connections = g
status.connections = c
innodb.spin_waits = c
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MySQL performance monitoring using Statsd and Graphite (PLUK2013)
- 1. MySQL Performance monitoring using Statsd and Graphite Art van Scheppingen Head of Database Engineering
- 2. Overview 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Who are we? What monitoring tools do we use? What are StatsD, Collectd and Graphite? How MySQL logs to StatsD Graphing examples Challenges Questions? 2
- 3. Who are we? Who is Spil Games?
- 4. Facts • • • • • Company founded in 2001 350+ employees world wide 180M+ unique visitors per month Over 60M registered users 45 portals in 19 languages • Casual games • Social games • Real time multiplayer games • Mobile games • 35+ MySQL clusters • 60k queries per second (3.5 billion qpd) 4
- 5. Geographic Reach 180 Million Monthly Active Users(*) Source: (*) Google Analytics, August 2012 5
- 6. Brands Girls, Teens and Family spielen.com juegos.com gamesgames.com games.co.uk 6
- 7. Monitoring We use(d) many many many monitoring tools so far!
- 8. Existing monitoring systems we use(d) • • • • Opsview/Nagios (mainly availability) Cacti (using Baron Schwartz/Percona templates) MONYog Good ol’ RRD 8
- 9. Challenges • Problems with existing systems • Stats gathering through polling • Data gets averaged out • (Host) checks are run serial • Slowdowns in a run means no/less data • Setting up an SSH connection is slow • Low granularity (1 to 5 minutes) • Hardly scalable • Difficult to correlate metrics 9
- 10. Difficult to add a new metric host065 bash-3.2# netstat -s | grep "listen queue" 26 times the listen queue of a socket overflowed host066 bash-3.2# netstat -s | grep "listen queue" 33 times the listen queue of a socket overflowed 10
- 11. Statsd + Collectd + Graphite What are they?
- 12. What is Collectd? • • • • Unix daemon that gathers system statistics Over 90 (input/output) plugins Plugin to send metrics to Graphite/Carbon Very useful for system metrics 12
- 13. Collectd Collectd Carbon TCP 30 second interval Gather data plugins CPU DISK LOAD 13 ….
- 14. What is StatsD? • • • • • • • Front-end proxy for Graphite/Carbon (by Etsy) NodeJS daemon (also other languages) Receives UDP (on localhost) Buffers metrics locally Flushes periodically data to Graphite/Carbon (TCP) Client libraries available in about any language Send any metric you like! 14
- 15. StatsD functions • StatsD functions • update_stats • increment/decrement • set • gauge • timers 15
- 16. StatsD Bash examples echo ”some.metric:1|c" | nc -w 1 -u graphite.host 8125 echo ”some.metric:1|c" > /dev/udp/localhost/8125 bash-3.2# netstat -s | grep "listen" 26 times the listen queue of a socket overflowed netstat -s | grep "listen" | awk '{print "hostname.listen.queue.overflowed:"$1"|c"}’ > /dev/udp/localhost/8125 hostname.listen.queue.overflowed:26|c echo "show global status" | mysql -u root | awk '{print "hostname.mysql.status."$1":"$2"|c"}' 16
- 17. StatsD StatsD Carbon TCP 2 second interval localhost:8125 UDP Application Level # OF LOGINS MySQL_Statsd CACHE HIT/MISS STATUS 17 INNODB STATUS
- 18. What is Graphite? • Highly scalable real-time graphing system • Collects numeric time-series • Backend daemon Carbon • Carbon-cache: receives data • Carbon-aggregator: aggregates data • Carbon-relay: replication and sharding • RRD or Whisper database 18
- 19. Graphite’s capabilities • Each metric is in its own bucket • Periods make folders • prod.syseng.mmm.<hostname>.admin_offline • Metric types • Counters • Gauge • Retention can be set using a regex • [mysql] • pattern = ^prod.syseng.mysql..*$ • retentions = 2s:1d,1m:3d,5m:7d,1h:5y 19
- 20. Our Graphite environment Client requesting graphs Server-1 Loadbalancer (port 443) Server-2 Server-n Loadbalancer (port 2003) Graphite Rendering Cluster Carbon relay 3 nodes 2 nodes 24h retention Skyline 1 node 8 nodes DEV SYSENG SERVICES1 20 SERVICES2
- 21. Our Graphite cluster(s) Client requesting graphs Server-1 12 graphs/s Loadbalancer (port 2003) Graphite Rendering Cluster Carbon relay 700 get/s DEV Server-n a Loadbalancer (port 443) 250K m/s Server-2 3M m(etrics)/s(econd) 1M m/s SYSENG 1.5M m/s SERVICES1 21 500K m/s SERVICES2
- 23. MySQL + StatsD How do we use them?
- 24. Why use StatsD over Collectd? • MySQL plugin for Collectd • Sends SHOW STATUS • No INNODB STATUS • Plugin not flexible • DBI plugin for Collectd • Metrics based on columns • Different granularity needed • Separate daemon (with persistent connection) • StatsD is easy as ABC 24
- 25. MySQL StatsD daemon • • • • • • • • Written in Python Rewritten and open sourced during a hackday Gathers data every 0.5 seconds Sends to StatsD (localhost) after every run Easy configuration Persistent connection Baron Schwartz’ InnoDB status parser (cacti poller) Other interesting metrics and counters • Information Schema • Performance Schema • MariaDB specific • Galera specific • If you can query it, you can use it as a metric! 25
- 26. MySQL StatsD overview StatsD MySQL SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES SHOW GLOBAL STATUS SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS StatsD thread MySQL Thread MySQL StatsD daemon 26
- 27. Example configuration [daemon] logfile = /var/log/mysql_statsd/daemon.log pidfile = /var/run/mysql_statsd.pid [statsd] host = localhost port = 8125 prefix = prd.mysql include_hostname = true [mysql] host = localhost username = mysqlstatsd password =ub3rs3cr3tp@ss! stats_types = status,variables,innodb,commit query_variables = SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES interval_variables = 10000 query_status = SHOW GLOBAL STATUS interval_status = 500 query_innodb = SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS interval_innodb = 10000 query_commit = COMMIT interval_commit = 5000 sleep_interval = 500 [metrics] variables.max_connections = g status.max_used_connections = g status.connections = c innodb.spin_waits = c 27
- 28. MySQL Multi Master patch • • • • Perl (Net::Statsd) Sends any status change to StatsD (localhost) Non-blocking (thanks to UDP) Draw as infinite in Graphite 28
- 29. Other metrics • Deployments • User initiated actions • Logins • High scores • Comments / ratings • Images uploaded • Payments • Application metrics • Error counts • Cache statistics (cache hit/miss) • Request timers • Image sizes 29
- 30. Start graphing! Now it starts to get interesting!
- 31. What is important for you? • Identify your KPIs • Don’t graph everything • More graphs == less overview • Combine metrics • Stack clusters 31
- 32. Correlate! • Include other metrics into your graphs • Deployments • Failover(s) • Combine application metrics with your database • Other influences • Launch of a new game • Apple keynotes 32
- 33. Graphing • Graphite Graphing Engine • DIY • Giraffe • Readily available dashboards/tools • Graph Explorer (vimeo) • Team Dashboard • Skyline (Etsy) • Dashing (Shopify) 33
- 34. DIY 34
- 35. Giraffe 35
- 38. Skyline 38
- 39. Dashing 39
- 40. Graphite Graphing Engine • URI based rendering API • Support for wildcards • stats.prod.syseng.mysql.*.status.com_select • sumSeries (stats.prod.syseng.mysql.*.status.com_select) • aliasByNode(stats.prod.syseng.mysql.*.status.com_select, 4) • Many functions • Nth percentile • Holt-Winters Forecast • Timeshift 40
- 47. What challenges do we have? • • • • • • • Improve MySQL-statsd (extensive issue list) No zoom in on graphs Get Skyline to work and not cry wolf Machine learning Eternal hunger for more metrics Abuse of the system Hitting limits of SSD write performance • Virident? Fusion-IO? • Carbon OpenTSDB Graphite-web? 47
- 48. What lessons have we learned? • Persistent connections + repeatable read • History list skyrocketed • More hackdays are needed! • Too many metrics slows down graphing • Too many metrics can kill a host • EstatsD for Erlang 48
- 49. Questions…
- 50. Practical links • Graphite: http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ • Collectd: https://collectd.org/ • StatsD on Github by Etsy: https://github.com/etsy/statsd/wiki • Etsy on StatsD: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measureanything-measure-everything/ 50
- 51. Thank you! • Presentation can be found at: http://spil.com/pluk2013 • MySQL Statsd can be found at: http://spil.com/mysqlstatsd http://github.com/spilgames/mysql-statsd • If you wish to contact me: art@spilgames.com 51
Editor's Notes
- so that may be the reason our name is not widely known.
- The three main brands:Girls, aimed at girls ages from 8 to 12Teens aimed at boys and girls 10 to 15and Family basically mothers playing with their childrenStrong domains localized over 19 different languagesspielen.com, juegos.com, gamesgames.com, games.co.uk, oyunonya.comAll content is localized
- ----- Meeting Notes (30-11-12 12:00) -----Abbreviations (try to pronounce)Theory too long, second part too brief.High Availability -> HA What do we do? Games!180M+Query numbers on DBsSome examples of portal namesSSP is abstraction layerSSP query exampleExplain why horizontal instead of verticalFunctional sharding slide!Explain why sattelite DCIntroduction to sattelite data centers (moving data to caching) but explain they do not own the dataInstead of example of migrating users, example of adding a new DCSlide 23: leave out slideWhy we chose erlang: remove pattern matching. Adds productivity: simplerAdd another example for buckets with a different backendSlide 22: partition on users, bucket and GIDs.It is not a mess in LAMP stack: the backend is just not scalables