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6 pcp2xml - pcp-to-xml metrics exporter
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9 pcp2xml [-5CGHIjLnrRvVxXz?] [-4 action] [-8|-9 limit] [-a archive] [-A
10 align] [--archive-folio folio] [-b|-B space-scale] [-c config] [--con‐
11 tainer container] [--daemonize] [-e derived] [-f format] [-F outfile]
12 [-h host] [-i instances] [-J rank] [-K spec] [-N predicate] [-O origin]
13 [-P|-0 precision] [-q|-Q count-scale] [-s samples] [-S starttime] [-t
14 interval] [-T endtime] [-y|-Y time-scale] [-Z timezone] metricspec
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18 pcp2xml is a customizable performance metrics exporter tool from PCP to
19 XML. Any available performance metric, live or archived, system and/or
20 application, can be selected for exporting using either command line
21 arguments or a configuration file.
22 pcp2xml is a close relative of pmrep(1). Please refer to pmrep(1) for
24 the metricspec description accepted on pcp2xml command line and
25 pmrep.conf(5) for description of the pcp2xml.conf configuration file
26 overall syntax, this page describes pcp2xml specific options and con‐
27 figuration file differences with pmrep.conf(5). pmrep(1) also lists
28 some usage examples of which most are applicable with pcp2xml as well.
29 Only the command line options listed on this page are supported, other
31 options recognized by pmrep(1) are not supported.
32 Options via environment values (see pmGetOptions(3)) override the cor‐
34 responding built-in default values (if any). Configuration file
35 options override the corresponding environment variables (if any).
36 Command line options override the corresponding configuration file
37 options (if any).
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40 pcp2xml uses a configuration file with overall syntax described in
41 pmrep.conf(5). The following options are common with pmrep.conf: ver‐
42 sion, source, speclocal, derived, header, globals, samples, interval,
43 type, type_prefer, ignore_incompat, names_change, instances, live_fil‐
44 ter, rank, limit_filter, limit_filter_force, invert_filter, predicate,
45 omit_flat, precision, precision_force, count_scale, count_scale_force,
46 space_scale, space_scale_force, time_scale, time_scale_force. The out‐
47 put option is recognized but ignored for pmrep.conf compatibility.
48 pcp2xml specific options
50 extended (boolean)
51 Write extended information about metrics. Corresponding command
52 line option is -x. Default is no.
53 everything (boolean)
55 Write everything known about metrics, including PCP internal IDs.
56 Corresponding command line option is -X. Default is no.
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59 The available command line options are:
60 -0 precision, --precision-force=precision
62 Like -P but this option will override per-metric specifications.
63 -4 action, --names-change=action
65 Specify which action to take on receiving a metric names change
66 event during sampling. These events occur when a PMDA discovers
67 new metrics sometime after starting up, and informs running client
68 tools like pcp2xml. Valid values for action are update (refresh
69 metrics being sampled), ignore (do nothing - the default behav‐
70 iour) and abort (exit the program if such an event happens).
71 -5, --ignore-unknown
73 Silently ignore any metric name that cannot be resolved. At least
74 one metric must be found for the tool to start.
75 -8 limit, --limit-filter=limit
77 Limit results to instances with values above/below limit. A posi‐
78 tive integer will include instances with values at or above the
79 limit in reporting. A negative integer will include instances
80 with values at or below the limit in reporting. A value of zero
81 performs no limit filtering. This option will not override possi‐
82 ble per-metric specifications. See also -J and -N.
83 -9 limit, --limit-filter-force=limit
85 Like -8 but this option will override per-metric specifications.
86 -a archive, --archive=archive
88 Performance metric values are retrieved from the set of Perfor‐
89 mance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive log files identified by the argument
90 archive, which is a comma-separated list of names, each of which
91 may be the base name of an archive or the name of a directory con‐
92 taining one or more archives.
93 -A align, --align=align
95 Force the initial sample to be aligned on the boundary of a natu‐
96 ral time unit align. Refer to PCPIntro(1) for a complete descrip‐
97 tion of the syntax for align.
98 --archive-folio=folio
100 Read metric source archives from the PCP archive folio created by
101 tools like pmchart(1) or, less often, manually with mkaf(1).
102 -b scale, --space-scale=scale
104 Unit/scale for space (byte) metrics, possible values include
105 bytes, Kbytes, KB, Mbytes, MB, and so forth. This option will not
106 override possible per-metric specifications. See also pmParseU‐
107 nitsStr(3).
108 -B scale, --space-scale-force=scale
110 Like -b but this option will override per-metric specifications.
111 -c config, --config=config
113 Specify the config file to use. The default is the first found
114 of: ./pcp2xml.conf, $HOME/.pcp2xml.conf, $HOME/pcp/pcp2xml.conf,
115 and $PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/pcp2xml.conf. For details, see the above
116 section and pmrep.conf(5).
117 --container=container
119 Fetch performance metrics from the specified container, either
120 local or remote (see -h).
121 -C, --check
123 Exit before reporting any values, but after parsing the configura‐
124 tion and metrics and printing possible headers.
125 --daemonize
127 Daemonize on startup.
128 -e derived, --derived=derived
130 Specify derived performance metrics. If derived starts with a
131 slash (``/'') or with a dot (``.'') it will be interpreted as a
132 derived metrics configuration file, otherwise it will be inter‐
133 preted as comma- or semicolon-separated derived metric expres‐
134 sions. For details see pmLoadDerivedConfig(3) and pmRegister‐
135 Derived(3).
136 -G, --no-globals
138 Do not include global metrics in reporting (see pmrep.conf(5)).
139 -f format, --timestamp-format=format
141 Use the format string for formatting the timestamp. The format
142 will be used with Python's datetime.strftime method which is
143 mostly the same as that described in strftime(3). The default is
144 %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.
145 -F outfile, --output-file=outfile
147 Specify the output file outfile.
148 -h host, --host=host
150 Fetch performance metrics from pmcd(1) on host, rather than from
151 the default localhost.
152 -H, --no-header
154 Do not print any headers.
155 -i instances, --instances=instances
157 Report only the listed instances from current instances (if
158 present, see also -j). By default all instances, present and
159 future, are reported. This is a global option that is used for
160 all metrics unless a metric-specific instance definition is pro‐
161 vided as part of a metricspec. By default single-valued ``flat''
162 metrics without multiple instances are still reported as usual,
163 use -v to change this. Please refer to pmrep(1) for more details
164 on this option.
165 -I, --ignore-incompat
167 Ignore incompatible metrics. By default incompatible metrics
168 (that is, their type is unsupported or they cannot be scaled as
169 requested) will cause pcp2xml to terminate with an error message.
170 With this option all incompatible metrics are silently omitted
171 from reporting. This may be especially useful when requesting
172 non-leaf nodes of the PMNS tree for reporting.
173 -j, --live-filter
175 Perform instance live filtering. This allows capturing all fil‐
176 tered instances even if processes are restarted at some point
177 (unlike without live filtering). Performing live filtering over a
178 huge amount of instances will add some internal overhead so a bit
179 of user caution is advised. See also -n.
180 -J rank, --rank=rank
182 Limit results to highest/lowest rank instances of set-valued met‐
183 rics. A positive integer will include highest valued instances in
184 reporting. A negative integer will include lowest valued
185 instances in reporting. A value of zero performs no ranking. See
186 also -8.
187 -K spec, --spec-local=spec
189 When fetching metrics from a local context (see -L), the -K option
190 may be used to control the DSO PMDAs that should be made accessi‐
191 ble. The spec argument conforms to the syntax described in
192 pmSpecLocalPMDA(3). More than one -K option may be used.
193 -L, --local-PMDA
195 Use a local context to collect metrics from DSO PMDAs on the local
196 host without PMCD. See also -K.
197 -n, --invert-filter
199 Perform ranking before live filtering. By default instance live
200 filtering (when requested, see -j) happens before instance ranking
201 (when requested, see -J). With this option the logic is inverted
202 and ranking happens before live filtering.
203 -N predicate, --predicate=predicate
205 Specify a comma-separated list of predicate filter reference met‐
206 rics. By default ranking (see -J) happens for each metric indi‐
207 vidually. With predicates, ranking is done only for the specified
208 predicate metrics. When reporting, rest of the metrics sharing
209 the same instance domain (see PCPIntro(1)) as the predicate will
210 include only the highest/lowest ranking instances of the corre‐
211 sponding predicate.
212 So for example, using proc.memory.rss (resident memory size of
214 process) as the predicate metric together with proc.io.total_bytes
215 and mem.util.used as metrics to be reported, only the processes
216 using most/least (as per -J) memory will be included when report‐
217 ing total bytes written by processes. Since mem.util.used is a
218 single-valued metric (thus not sharing the same instance domain as
219 the process-related metrics), it will be reported as usual.
220 -O origin, --origin=origin
222 When reporting archived metrics, start reporting at origin within
223 the time window (see -S and -T). Refer to PCPIntro(1) for a com‐
224 plete description of the syntax for origin.
225 -P precision, --precision=precision
227 Use precision for numeric non-integer output values. The default
228 is to use 3 decimal places (when applicable). This option will
229 not override possible per-metric specifications.
230 -q scale, --count-scale=scale
232 Unit/scale for count metrics, possible values include count x
233 10^-1, count, count x 10, count x 10^2, and so forth from 10^-8 to
234 10^7. (These values are currently space-sensitive.) This option
235 will not override possible per-metric specifications. See also
236 pmParseUnitsStr(3).
237 -Q scale, --count-scale-force=scale
239 Like -q but this option will override per-metric specifications.
240 -r, --raw
242 Output raw metric values, do not convert cumulative counters to
243 rates. This option will override possible per-metric specifica‐
244 tions.
245 -R, --raw-prefer
247 Like -r but this option will not override per-metric specifica‐
248 tions.
249 -s samples, --samples=samples
251 The argument samples defines the number of samples to be retrieved
252 and reported. If samples is 0 or -s is not specified, pcp2xml
253 will sample and report continuously (in real time mode) or until
254 the end of the set of PCP archives (in archive mode). See also
255 -T.
256 -S starttime, --start=starttime
258 When reporting archived metrics, the report will be restricted to
259 those records logged at or after starttime. Refer to PCPIntro(1)
260 for a complete description of the syntax for starttime.
261 -t interval, --interval=interval
263 The default update interval may be set to something other than the
264 default 1 second. The interval argument follows the syntax
265 described in PCPIntro(1), and in the simplest form may be an
266 unsigned integer (the implied units in this case are seconds).
267 See also the -T option.
268 -T endtime, --finish=endtime
270 When reporting archived metrics, the report will be restricted to
271 those records logged before or at endtime. Refer to PCPIntro(1)
272 for a complete description of the syntax for endtime.
273 When used to define the runtime before pcp2xml will exit, if no
275 samples is given (see -s) then the number of reported samples
276 depends on interval (see -t). If samples is given then interval
277 will be adjusted to allow reporting of samples during runtime. In
278 case all of -T, -s, and -t are given, endtime determines the
279 actual time pcp2xml will run.
280 -v, --omit-flat
282 Omit single-valued ``flat'' metrics from reporting, only consider
283 set-valued metrics (i.e., metrics with multiple values) for
284 reporting. See -i and -I.
285 -V, --version
287 Display version number and exit.
288 -x, --with-extended
290 Write extended information.
291 -X, --with-everything
293 Write everything known about metrics, including PCP internal IDs.
294 -y scale, --time-scale=scale
296 Unit/scale for time metrics, possible values include nanosec, ns,
297 microsec, us, millisec, ms, and so forth up to hour, hr. This
298 option will not override possible per-metric specifications. See
299 also pmParseUnitsStr(3).
300 -Y scale, --time-scale-force=scale
302 Like -y but this option will override per-metric specifications.
303 -z, --hostzone
305 Use the local timezone of the host that is the source of the per‐
306 formance metrics, as identified by either the -h or the -a
307 options. The default is to use the timezone of the local host.
308 -Z timezone, --timezone=timezone
310 Use timezone for the date and time. Timezone is in the format of
311 the environment variable TZ as described in environ(7). Note that
312 when including a timezone string in output, ISO 8601 -style UTC
313 offsets are used (so something like -Z EST+5 will become UTC-5).
314 -?, --help
316 Display usage message and exit.
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319 pcp2xml.conf
320 pcp2xml configuration file (see -c)
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323 Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the
324 file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file
325 /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The
326 $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration
327 file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
328 For environment variables affecting PCP tools, see pmGetOptions(3).
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332 mkaf(1), PCPIntro(1), pcp(1), pcp2elasticsearch(1), pcp2graphite(1),
333 pcp2influxdb(1), pcp2json(1), pcp2spark(1), pcp2xlsx(1), pcp2zabbix(1),
334 pmcd(1), pminfo(1), pmrep(1), pmGetOptions(3), pmSpecLocalPMDA(3),
335 pmLoadDerivedConfig(3), pmParseUnitsStr(3), pmRegisterDerived(3), LOGA‐
336 RCHIVE(5), pcp.conf(5), pmns(5), pmrep.conf(5) and environ(7).
337Performance Co-Pilot PCP PCP2XML(1)