[openstack-dev] [swift] add checking daemons existence in Healthcheck middleware
Osanai, Hisashi
osanai.hisashi at jp.fujitsu.com
Tue Jul 8 04:10:24 UTC 2014
John,
Thank you for your response.
I checked out the doc of swift-recon and that function is
exactly the one what I want to have.
# Sorry, my checking is not enough...
Thanks again,
Hisashi Osanai
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Dickinson [mailto:me at not.mn]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 11:59 AM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [swift] add checking daemons existence in
> Healthcheck middleware
>
> In general, you're right. It's pretty important to know what's going on
> in the cluster. However, the checks for these background daemons shouldn't
> be done in the wsgi servers. Generally, we've stayed away from a lot of
> process monitoring in the Swift core. That it, Swift already works around
> failures, and there is already existing ops tooling to monitor if a process
> is alive.
>
> Check out the swift-recon tool that's included with Swift. It already
> includes some checks like the replication cycle time. While it's not a
> direct "is this process alive" monitoring tool, it does give good
> information about the health of the cluster.
>
> If you've got some other ideas on checks to add to recon or ways to make
> it better or perhaps even some different ways to integrate monitoring
> systems, let us know!
>
> --John
>
>
>
> On Jul 7, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Osanai, Hisashi
> <osanai.hisashi at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Current Healthcheck middleware provides the functionality of monitoring
> Servers such as
> > Proxy Server, Object Server, Container Server, Container Server and
> Account Server. The
> > middleware checks whether each Servers can handle request/response.
> > My idea to enhance this middleware is
> > checking daemons such replications, updaters and auditors existence
> in addition to current one.
> > If we realize this, the scope of Health would be extended from
> > "a Server can handle request" to "a Server and daemons can work
> appropriately".
> >
> >
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/icehouse/middleware.html?h
> ighlight=health#healthcheck
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Hisashi Osanai
> >
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