vitrage/doc/source/contributor/profiler-config.rst
Yujun Zhang 4ade92d95f Update profiler configuration with redis backend
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Configure profiler
==================
Overview
========
`osprofiler`_, the Cross-project profiling library for OpenStack, is integrated in Vitrage to generate 1 trace per
request, that goes through all involved services.
.. _osprofiler: https://docs.openstack.org/osprofiler/latest/
Configuration
=============
Profiling must be enabled **explicitly** in Vitrage configuration file::
[profiler]
enabled = true
hmac_keys = SECRET_KEY
connection_string = redis://<ip-address>:6379/
- ``hmac_key`` will be used in client to sign a request with profiling enabled
- ``connection_string`` specify the storage driver to collect tracing data, fill in real IP address of redis here.
Note: in devstack environment, redis is available on ``redis://127.0.0.1:6379``.
Please refer to `osprofiler user manual`_ for details.
.. _osprofiler user manual: https://docs.openstack.org/osprofiler/latest/user/index.html
Usage
=====
Use ``--profile`` option in Vitrage CLI to send a request with profiling enabled, e.g.::
vitrage --profile SECRET_KEY topology show
The key must match the `hmac_keys` configured in the server.
The uuid of trace will be prompted in console after the normal result. For example::
{
"directed": true,
"graph": {},
"nodes": [],
"links": [],
"multigraph": true
}
To display trace use the command:
osprofiler trace show --html 8c2a594b-bb26-4a00-a408-fd378ae3566b
Follow the help message above to show the trace file with ``osprofiler`` client::
osprofiler trace show --html <TRACE-ID> --connection-string=redis://<ip-address>:6379
.. image:: ./images/osprofiler-html-output.png
:width: 100%
:align: center