| PuppetDB has a global.size message queue metric that provides the distribution of command sizes that have been submitted: https://puppet.com/docs/puppetdb/6.5/api/metrics/v1/mbeans.html#message-queue-metrics This information is important for determining PuppetDB memory use and detecting changes that have caused an abnormal amount of command data to be submitted. In current configurations, this metric is not receiving any data. Reproduction Case
- Install Puppet, Puppet Server, and PuppetDB 5 on a CentOS 7 system:
yum install -y http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppet5-release-el-7.noarch.rpm |
yum install -y puppetserver |
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source /etc/profile.d/puppet-agent.sh |
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puppet config set server $(puppet config print certname) |
systemctl start puppetserver |
puppet module install puppetlabs-puppetdb |
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puppet apply <<EOF |
include puppetdb |
class { 'puppetdb::master::config': |
manage_config => true, |
enable_reports => true, |
} |
EOF
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- Run the puppet agent to submit data to PuppetDB: puppet agent -t
- Check the global.size metric:
Outcome The metric returns no data:
curl -sS 'http://localhost:8080/metrics/v2/read/puppetlabs.puppetdb.mq:name=global.size' |python -m json.tool |
{ |
"request": { |
"mbean": "puppetlabs.puppetdb.mq:name=global.size", |
"type": "read" |
}, |
"status": 200, |
"timestamp": 1567818278, |
"value": { |
"50thPercentile": 0.0, |
"75thPercentile": 0.0, |
"95thPercentile": 0.0, |
"98thPercentile": 0.0, |
"999thPercentile": 0.0, |
"99thPercentile": 0.0, |
"Count": 0, |
"Max": 0, |
"Mean": 0.0, |
"Min": 0, |
"SnapshotSize": 0, |
"StdDev": 0.0 |
} |
}
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Despite the PuppetDB access log showing that command data was submitted:
# fgrep /pdb/cmd/ /var/log/puppetlabs/puppetdb/puppetdb-access.log |
10.16.126.201 - - [07/Sep/2019:01:00:11 +0000] "POST |
/pdb/cmd/v1?checksum=03c4cb56d666fdac92d41124d98c4b11c0563d83&version=5&certname=bwoy7ty3hsskdj0.delivery.puppetlabs.net&command=replace_facts&producer-timestamp=2019-09-07T01:00:11.496Z |
HTTP/1.1" 200 53 "-" "Apache-HttpAsyncClient/4.1.2 (Java/1.8.0_222)" 53 |
10.16.126.201 - - [07/Sep/2019:01:00:12 +0000] "POST |
/pdb/cmd/v1?checksum=2f074c729b6180641c927fcf5293bf25d69cdce5&version=9&certname=bwoy7ty3hsskdj0.delivery.puppetlabs.net&command=replace_catalog&producer-timestamp=2019-09-07T01:00:12.042Z |
HTTP/1.1" 200 53 "-" "Apache-HttpAsyncClient/4.1.2 (Java/1.8.0_222)" 64
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Expected Outcome The Count component of the global.size metric is equal to the number of
requests to the /pdb/cmd API recorded in the access log. |
