第 16 章 Configuring performance monitoring with PCP by using RHEL system roles


Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a system performance analysis toolkit. You can use it to record and analyze performance data from many components on a RHEL system. Use the metrics RHEL system role to automate the installation and configuration of PCP, and configure Grafana to visualize PCP metrics.

You can use Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) to monitor many metrics, such as CPU utilization and memory usage. For example, this can help to identify resource and performance bottlenecks. By using the metrics RHEL system role, you can remotely configure PCP on multiple hosts to record metrics.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Create a playbook file, for example, ~/playbook.yml, with the following content:

    ---
    - name: Monitoring performance metrics
      hosts: managed-node-01.example.com
      tasks:
        - name: Configure Performance Co-Pilot
          ansible.builtin.include_role:
            name: redhat.rhel_system_roles.metrics
          vars:
            metrics_retention_days: 14
            metrics_manage_firewall: true
            metrics_manage_selinux: true

    The settings specified in the example playbook include the following:

    metrics_retention_days: <number>
    Sets the number of days after which the pmlogger_daily systemd timer removes old PCP archives.
    metrics_manage_firewall: <true|false>
    Defines whether the role should open the required ports in the firewalld service. If you want to remotely access PCP on the managed nodes, set this variable to true.

    For details about all variables used in the playbook, see the /usr/share/ansible/roles/rhel-system-roles.metrics/README.md file on the control node.

  2. Validate the playbook syntax:

    $ ansible-playbook --syntax-check ~/playbook.yml

    Note that this command only validates the syntax and does not protect against a wrong but valid configuration.

  3. Run the playbook:

    $ ansible-playbook ~/playbook.yml

Verification

  • Query a metric, for example:

    # ansible managed-node-01.example.com -m command -a 'pminfo -f kernel.all.load'
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