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IOPing

Plugin: ioping.plugin Module: ioping.plugin

Overview

Monitor IOPing metrics for efficient disk I/O latency tracking. Keep track of read/write speeds, latency, and error rates for optimized disk operations.

Plugin uses ioping command.

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn't support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per disk

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

MetricDimensionsUnit
ioping.latencylatencymicroseconds

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert nameOn metricDescription
ioping_disk_latency ioping.latencyaverage I/O latency over the last 10 seconds

Setup

Prerequisites

Install ioping

You can install the command by passing the argument install to the plugin (/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/ioping.plugin install).

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is ioping.conf.

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config ioping.conf

Options

Config options
NameDescriptionDefaultRequired
update_everyData collection frequency.1sno
destinationThe directory/file/device to ioping.yes
request_sizeThe request size in bytes to ioping the destination (symbolic modifiers are supported)4kno
ioping_optsOptions passed to ioping commands.-T 1000000no

Examples

Basic Configuration

This example has the minimum configuration necessary to have the plugin running.

Config
destination="/dev/sda"


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