PerfMon - Support of getting metrics to InfluxDB/Graphite ?

[Ivan Mitev]

Hi, as the latest version of JMeter 2.13 has implementation for dumping results in http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/realtime-results.html I wonder if there are plans to support this for the system metric gathered by PerfMon, too?

P.S. There is a similar question at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29216161/using-grafana-with-jmeter , too.

Cheers

[Andrey Pokhilko]

Hi,

Like stackoverflow answer explains, PerfMon does not send its data into InfluxDB/Graphite. And I see no sense to implement this, because there are much better alternatives like collectd, zabbix and many-many others. 

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Andrey

вторник, 5 мая 2015 г., 14:15:36 UTC+3 пользователь Ivan Mitev написал:

[Ivan Mitev]

Actually I think it might be a nice-to-have feature, mainly because it would make easier the adoption of  InfluxDB/Graphite by existing JMeter + PerfMon users. The nice things about it are:

- Would work out-of-the-box without need to install and setup other metric collection tools (the Sigar-based client works everywhere, while collectd doesn't support Windows). JMeter users would already know how to setup the PerfMon collection.

- Metrics collection is automatically started/stopped upon performance test start/completion.

Cheers

[Andrey Pokhilko]

Okay, feel free to suggest implementation for that. Hopefully one that will reuse existing code to interact with InfluxDB/Graphite. 

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Andrey

вторник, 5 мая 2015 г., 17:12:33 UTC+3 пользователь Ivan Mitev написал:

[Ivan Mitev]

OK,

About reusing the code for sending data to a time-series backend that support the graphite protocol, the source file is "\src\components\org\apache\jmeter\visualizers\backend\graphite\GraphiteBackendListenerClient.java"

I am not sure if/how within the code of the PerfMon section there is access to the "Backend Listener" section in a thread group (I am quite new to JMeter), but if it does, it might be best to read the InfluxDB/Graphite connection parameters from there (instead of creating another configuration). 

The new time series could use the following naming schema "metrics.<server>.<metricName>", since it makes sense to have a single time series for a particular metric, gathered on a particular server.

Is anyone interested in implementing this? Or is it expected that such ideas for extensions come in the form of a pull request? :)

Cheers

[nede...@gmail.com]

Collectd works perfect on linux. 

However it's not so easy to get perfmon metrics to influxdb from windows servers. 

This option worked for me https://github.com/MattHodge/Graphite-PowerShell-Functions. 

But it would be nice to have smth built in to jmeter :)

вторник, 5 мая 2015 г., 14:15:36 UTC+3 пользователь Ivan Mitev написал:

Hi, as the latest version of JMeter 2.13 has implementation for dumping results in http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/realtime-results.html I wonder if there are plans to support this for the system metric gathered by PerfMon, too?

[ross....@gmail.com]

Any update on this?

I would dearly love to be able to send the perfmon stats via the backend listener into Grafana/influxDB....

It can't be that hard surely?

:)

[jeremy....@gmail.com]

You might have found this already, but check out telegraf, which basically grabs perfmon stats and sends them to influxdb.  Here is a great post about it:

https://hodgkins.io/windows-metric-dashboards-with-influxdb-and-grafana