vmstats is a tiny Erlang app that works in conjunction with statsderl in order to generate information on the Erlang VM for graphite logs.
The different fields include:
- the error_logger queue length
- the number of modules loaded
- the number of processes
- the process limit
- the length of the run queue
- the scheduler usage as a percentage (disabled by default)
- memory used for ETS tables, atoms, processes, binaries and the total memory
$ ./rebar compile
or
$ make
Although it was recommended to leave the interval at 1000ms (1 second) as graphite seems to dampen missing data points on intervals larger than that, the newer version of this application allows more precise or longer delays given the use of guauges instead of increments.
Scheduler wall time statistics are now disabled by default to keep in line with 0.1.0 behaviour, and after some bugs being reported when the Erlang scheduler would lock on such calls in R15B01 a few times in a day, never to unlock again. People who want to take the risk of running these statistics can do it by setting the vmstats
env variable sched_time
to true
.
You are likely using vmstats with an Erlang release prior to R15B. Switch away from master and use the tag "0.1.0" to get back to the functionning version you knew.
- Adding garbage collection count per interval
- Adding words reclaimed in garbage collections per interval
- Adding reduction increment count per interval
- Adding IO data (bytes in and out) per interval