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============== Health Reports

How to Get Reports

In general, there are two channels to retrieve the health reports:

ceph (CLI) The ceph CLI command sends the health Monitor command for retrieving the health status of the cluster. Manager module A Manager module calls the mgr.get('health') method for the same report in the form of a JSON encoded string.

The following diagrams outline the involved parties and how they interact when the clients query for the reports:

.. Mermaid source of health_reports_sequence1.svg sequenceDiagram participant osd participant mon participant ceph-cli osd->>+mon: update osdmap service mon-->>-osd: osd->>+mon: update osdmap service mon-->>-osd: ceph-cli->>+mon: send 'health' command mon->>mon: Note right of mon: gather checks from services mon-->>-ceph-cli: checks and mutes

.. image:: health_reports_sequence1.svg

.. Mermaid source of health_reports_sequence2.svg sequenceDiagram participant osd participant mon participant mgr participant mgr-module mgr->>mon: subscribe for 'mgrdigest' osd->>+mon: update osdmap service mon-->>-osd: osd->>+mon: update osdmap service mon-->>-osd: mon->>+mgr: send MMgrDigest mgr->>mgr: Note right of mgr: update cluster state mgr-->>-mon: mgr-module->>+mgr: mgr.get('health') mgr-->>-mgr-module: health reports in JSON

.. image:: health_reports_sequence2.svg

Where are the Reports Generated

Monitor: Aggregator of Aggregators

Monitor aggregates health reports from multiple Paxos services:

  • AuthMonitor
  • HealthMonitor
  • MDSMonitor
  • MgrMonitor
  • MgrStatMonitor
  • MonmapMonitor
  • OSDMonitor

When each of the Paxos services persist the pending changes in their own domain, health-related issues are identified and stored into monstore with the prefix health using the same transaction. For instance:

  • OSDMonitor checks a pending osdmap for possible issues such as down OSDs and a missing scrub flag in a pool and then stores the encoded form of the health reports along with the new osdmap. These reports are later loaded and decoded, so they can be collected on demand.
  • MDSMonitor persists the health metrics contained in the beacon sent by the MDS daemons and prepares health reports when storing the pending changes.

.. Mermaid source of health_reports_sequence3.svg sequenceDiagram participant mds participant mon-mds participant mon-health participant ceph-cli mds->>+mon-mds: send beacon mon-mds->>mon-mds: Note right of mon-mds: store health metrics in beacon mon-mds-->>-mds: mon-mds->>mon-mds: Note right of mon-mds: encode_health(checks) ceph-cli->>+mon-health: send 'health' command mon-health->>+mon-mds: gather health checks mon-mds-->>-mon-health: mon-health-->>-ceph-cli: checks and mutes

.. image:: health_reports_sequence3.svg

To add a new warning related to CephFS, for example, a good place to start is MDSMonitor::encode_pending(), where health reports are collected from the latest FSMap and the health metrics reported by MDS daemons.

It is noteworthy that MgrStatMonitor does not prepare health reports. It receives aggregated reports from the Manager and then persists them to monstore.

Manager: a Delegate Aggregator

Monitor establishes consensus information including osdmap, mdsmap and monmap which is critical for cluster functioning. Aggregated statistics of the cluster are crucial for the administrator to understand the status of the cluster but they are not critical for cluster functioning. For scalability reasons they are offloaded to Manager which collects and aggregates the metrics.

Manager receives and processes MPGStats messages from OSDs. Daemons also report metrics and status periodically to Manager using MMgrReport. An aggregated report is then sent periodically to the Monitor MgrStatMonitor service which persists the data to monstore.

.. Mermaid source of health_reports_sequence4.svg sequenceDiagram participant service participant mgr participant mon-mgr-stat participant mon-health service->>+mgr: send(open) mgr->>mgr: Note right of mgr: register the new service mgr-->>-service: mgr->>+service: send(configure) service-->>-mgr: service->>+mgr: send(report) mgr->>mgr: Note right of mgr: update/aggregate service metrics mgr-->>-service: service->>+mgr: send(report) mgr-->>-service: mgr->>+mon-mgr-stat: send(mgr-report) mon-mgr-stat->>mon-mgr-stat: Note right of mon-mgr-stat: store health checks in the report mon-mgr-stat-->>-mgr: mon-health->>+mon-mgr-stat: gather health checks mon-mgr-stat-->>-mon-health: service->>+mgr: send(report) mgr-->>-service: service->>+mgr: send(close) mgr-->>-service:

.. image:: health_reports_sequence4.svg