pcp-and-vector

Performance Co-Pilot and Vector performance monitoring framework

Performance Co-Pilot (http://pcp.io/) is open source framework and toolkit for monitoring. Vector (http://vectoross.io/) is an open source on-host performance monitoring framework which exposes hand picked high resolution system and application metrics to every engineer’s browser.

Follow these links to get started:

• http://pcp.io/docs/guide.html#install
• http://vectoross.io/#getting-started
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1137023
• http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2015/12/18/getting-started-using-performance-co-pilot-and-vector-for-browser-based-metric-visualizations/
• http://vectoross.io/docs/building-vector-source
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/2372811 Side-by-side comparison of PCP tools with standard / legacy tools

Notes:

• Use pcp --host=host_address to check availability of pcp data
• Add ports 44321 and 44323 to allowed ports on firewall
• Put Vector bits in /var/www/html or use python -m SimpleHTTPServer to serve the data
• Use host_address:44323 as Hostname and localhost as Hostpec in Vector UI

RHEL 6 steps

yum install pcp 
chkconfig pmcd on
chkconfig pmlogger on
service pmcd start
service pmlogger start

yum install pcp-webapp-vector pcp-webapi
service pmwebd start
chkconfig pmwebd on

system-config-firewall 

Localhost example URL: http://localhost:44323/vector/index.html#/?host=localhost:44323&hostspec=localhost&widgets=kernel.all.cpu,kernel.percpu.cpu,kernel.all.runnable,kernel.all.load,network.interface.bytes,network.tcpconn,network.interface.packets,network.tcp.retrans,mem,mem.vmstat.pgfault,kernel.all.pswitch,disk.iops,disk.bytes,disk.dev.avactive,disk.dev.latency