<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Metrics — Buildbot 0.8.12 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/agogo.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = { URL_ROOT: '../', VERSION: '0.8.12', COLLAPSE_INDEX: false, FILE_SUFFIX: '.html', HAS_SOURCE: true }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../_static/buildbot.ico"/> <link rel="top" title="Buildbot 0.8.12 documentation" href="../index.html" /> <link rel="up" title="Buildbot Development" href="index.html" /> <link rel="next" title="How to package Buildbot plugins" href="plugins-publish.html" /> <link rel="prev" title="String Encodings" href="encodings.html" /> </head> <body role="document"> <div class="header-wrapper" role="banner"> <div class="header"> <p class="logo"><a href="../index.html"> <img class="logo" src="../_static/header-text-transparent.png" alt="Logo"/> </a></p> <div class="headertitle"><a href="../index.html">Buildbot 0.8.12 documentation</a></div> <div class="rel" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <a href="encodings.html" title="String Encodings" accesskey="P">previous</a> | <a href="plugins-publish.html" title="How to package Buildbot plugins" accesskey="N">next</a> | <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> | <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" accesskey="I">index</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content-wrapper"> <div class="content"> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body" role="main"> <div class="section" id="metrics"> <span id="id1"></span><h1>Metrics<a class="headerlink" href="#metrics" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>New in buildbot 0.8.4 is support for tracking various performance metrics inside the buildbot master process. Currently these are logged periodically according to the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">log_interval</span></code> configuration setting of the @ref{Metrics Options} configuration.</p> <p>If <a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cfg-statustargets.html#status-WebStatus" title="WebStatus"><code class="xref bb bb-status docutils literal"><span class="pre">WebStatus</span></code></a> is enabled, the metrics data is also available via <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/json/metrics</span></code>.</p> <p>The metrics subsystem is implemented in <code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">buildbot.process.metrics</span></code>. It makes use of twisted's logging system to pass metrics data from all over buildbot's code to a central <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricsLogObserver</span></code> object, which is available at <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BuildMaster.metrics</span></code> or via <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Status.getMetrics()</span></code>.</p> <div class="section" id="metric-events"> <h2>Metric Events<a class="headerlink" href="#metric-events" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricEvent</span></code> objects represent individual items to monitor. There are three sub-classes implemented:</p> <dl class="docutils"> <dt><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricCountEvent</span></code></dt> <dd><p class="first">Records incremental increase or decrease of some value, or an absolute measure of some value.</p> <div class="last highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">buildbot.process.metrics</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">MetricCountEvent</span> <span class="c1"># We got a new widget!</span> <span class="n">MetricCountEvent</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'num_widgets'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># We have exactly 10 widgets</span> <span class="n">MetricCountEvent</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'num_widgets'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">absolute</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">True</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> </dd> <dt><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricTimeEvent</span></code></dt> <dd><p class="first">Measures how long things take. By default the average of the last 10 times will be reported.</p> <div class="last highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">buildbot.process.metrics</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">MetricTimeEvent</span> <span class="c1"># function took 0.001s</span> <span class="n">MetricTimeEvent</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'time_function'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">0.001</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> </dd> <dt><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricAlarmEvent</span></code></dt> <dd><p class="first">Indicates the health of various metrics.</p> <div class="last highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">buildbot.process.metrics</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">MetricAlarmEvent</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ALARM_OK</span> <span class="c1"># num_slaves looks ok</span> <span class="n">MetricAlarmEvent</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'num_slaves'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">ALARM_OK</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> </div> </dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" id="metric-handlers"> <h2>Metric Handlers<a class="headerlink" href="#metric-handlers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricsHandler</span></code> objects are responsible for collecting <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricEvent</span></code>s of a specific type and keeping track of their values for future reporting. There are <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricsHandler</span></code> classes corresponding to each of the <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricEvent</span></code> types.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="metric-watchers"> <h2>Metric Watchers<a class="headerlink" href="#metric-watchers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Watcher objects can be added to <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricsHandlers</span></code> to be called when metric events of a certain type are received. Watchers are generally used to record alarm events in response to count or time events.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="metric-helpers"> <h2>Metric Helpers<a class="headerlink" href="#metric-helpers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <dl class="docutils"> <dt><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">countMethod(name)</span></code></dt> <dd><p class="first">A function decorator that counts how many times the function is called.</p> <div class="last highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">buildbot.process.metrics</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">countMethod</span> <span class="nd">@countMethod</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'foo_called'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">foo</span><span class="p">():</span> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="s2">"foo!"</span> </pre></div> </div> </dd> <dt><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">Timer(name)</span></code></dt> <dd><p class="first"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Timer</span></code> objects can be used to make timing events easier. When <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Timer.stop()</span></code> is called, a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">MetricTimeEvent</span></code> is logged with the elapsed time since <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">timer.start()</span></code> was called.</p> <div class="highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">buildbot.process.metrics</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">Timer</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">foo</span><span class="p">():</span> <span class="n">t</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Timer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'time_foo'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">start</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1000</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="n">calc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="s2">"foo!"</span> <span class="k">finally</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">stop</span><span class="p">()</span> </pre></div> </div> <p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Timer</span></code> objects also provide a pair of decorators, <code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">startTimer</span></code>/<code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">stopTimer</span></code> to decorate other functions.</p> <div class="last highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">buildbot.process.metrics</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">Timer</span> <span class="n">t</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Timer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'time_thing'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="nd">@t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">startTimer</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">foo</span><span class="p">():</span> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="s2">"foo!"</span> <span class="nd">@t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">stopTimer</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">bar</span><span class="p">():</span> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="s2">"bar!"</span> <span class="n">foo</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="n">bar</span><span class="p">()</span> </pre></div> </div> </dd> <dt><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">timeMethod(name)</span></code></dt> <dd><p class="first">A function decorator that measures how long a function takes to execute. Note that many functions in buildbot return deferreds, so may return before all the work they set up has completed. Using an explicit <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">Timer</span></code> is better in this case.</p> <div class="last highlight-default"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">buildbot.process.metrics</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">timeMethod</span> <span class="nd">@timeMethod</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'time_foo'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">foo</span><span class="p">():</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1000</span><span class="p">):</span> <span class="n">calc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">return</span> <span class="s2">"foo!"</span> </pre></div> </div> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sidebar"> <h3>Table Of Contents</h3> <ul class="current"> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="../tutorial/index.html">Buildbot Tutorial</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/index.html">Buildbot Manual</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1 current"><a class="reference internal" href="index.html">Buildbot Development</a><ul class="current"> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="master-overview.html">Master Organization</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="definitions.html">Definitions</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="style.html">Buildbot Coding Style</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="tests.html">Buildbot's Test Suite</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="config.html">Configuration</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="utils.html">Utilities</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="database.html">Database</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="results.html">Build Result Codes</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="formats.html">File Formats</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="webstatus.html">Web Status</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="master-slave.html">Master-Slave API</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="encodings.html">String Encodings</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2 current"><a class="current reference internal" href="#">Metrics</a><ul class="simple"> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="plugins-publish.html">How to package Buildbot plugins</a></li> <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="classes.html">Classes</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="../relnotes/index.html">Release Notes for Buildbot 0.8.12</a></li> </ul> <div role="search"> <h3 style="margin-top: 1.5em;">Search</h3> <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="footer-wrapper"> <div class="footer"> <div class="left"> <div role="navigation" aria-label="related navigaton"> <a href="encodings.html" title="String Encodings" >previous</a> | <a href="plugins-publish.html" title="How to package Buildbot plugins" >next</a> | <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> | <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a> </div> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <br/> <a href="../_sources/developer/metrics.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a> </div> </div> <div class="right"> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> © Copyright Buildbot Team Members. 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