Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:14:46 +0200 From: Fabian Freyer <fabian.freyer@physik.tu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: on bhyve statistics Message-ID: <c7b3952e-995a-3672-78e1-7341c159b5f4@physik.tu-berlin.de>
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Hi list,
I'm currently looking at getting the libvirt prometheus exporter[1] to
work with libvirt+bhyve. In its current state this doesn't work because
at least one of the API calls exposed by libvirt isn't implemented by
the libvirt bhyve driver - so I started looking at implementing it.
The first API call in question is virDomainBlockStats[2], which returns
statistics (number of read and written bytes and ops, respectively).
Currently, bhyve does not expose any of these statistics. All the stats
available through bhyvectl --get-stats seem to be coming from the VMM,
not from the userspace emulation. OTOH, I did see that there are *some*
stats being collected in bhyverun.c (see struct bhyvestats {...}
stats;). I can't see how these are exposed though - a grep of /usr/src
turned up no other uses. Which brings me to the following questions:
- are the stats in struct bhyvestats {...} stats exposed or used in any
non-obvious way?
- architecturally, what would be the best ways to get stats out of the
user-space emulations? Off of the top of my head, I could think of the
following possibilities:
- prometheus exporter
- having some socket or pipe to request them
- DTrace probes
I wouldn't mind implementing any of the above, and so would like to know
which of these (or other options) would be the most acceptable, and
would appreciate some guidance.
CC'ing novel@ for the libvirt side, and grehan@ for the architectural
bhyve questions.
Fabian
[1] https://github.com/kumina/libvirt_exporter
[2] https://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-domain.html#virDomainBlockStats
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