vm.vmtotal

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: vm.vmtotal

Overview

Collect Virtual Memory information from host.

The plugin calls function sysctl to collect data.

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.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

Options

Config Options

Option	Description	Default	Required
enable total processes	Number of active processes.	yes	no
processes running	Show number of processes running or blocked.	yes	no
real memory	Memeory used on host.	yes	no

via File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:freebsd:vm.vmtotal] section within that file.

The file format is a modified INI syntax. The general structure is:

[section1]
    option1 = some value
    option2 = some other value

[section2]
    option3 = some third value

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 netdata.conf

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name	On metric	Description
Alert name active_processes	On metricsystem.active_processes	Descriptionsystem process IDs (PID) space utilization

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 vm.vmtotal instance

These metrics show an overall vision about processes running.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Description	Dimensions	Unit
system.active_processes	System Active Processes	active	processes
system.processes	System Processes	running, blocked	processes
mem.real	Total Real Memory In Use	used	MiB