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:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
ioping.latency	latency	microseconds

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name	On metric	Description
ioping_disk_latency	ioping.latency	average 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

Name	Description	Default	Required
update_every	Data collection frequency.	1s	no
destination	The directory/file/device to ioping.		yes
request_size	The request size in bytes to ioping the destination (symbolic modifiers are supported)	4k	no
ioping_opts	Options passed to ioping commands.	-T 1000000	no

Examples

Basic Configuration

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

Config

destination="/dev/sda"