Aerospike Monitoring | Monitor Aerospike Database

What is Aerospike?

Aerospike is a high-performance, distributed NoSQL database known for its low-latency, real-time data processing. It's designed for mission-critical applications, offering fast, scalable storage and retrieval of data. Aerospike is widely used in advertising, finance, IoT, and gaming technologies due to its speed and reliability.

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Keep track of the overall Aerospike health, as well as its namespaces to improve performance, resource utilization, and ensure efficient database operations.

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The following storage metrics are tracked by the plugin integration:

Metric name	Description
Client Connections	The number of active client connections to the node
Client Connections Opened	The number of client connections that are opened
Cluster Size	Size of the cluster
Fabric Connections Opened	The number of active fabric connections to the node
Heartbeat Connections Opened	The number of active heartbeat connections to the node
System Free Mem kbytes	Free system memory (in kB)
System Free memory %	Free system memory (in %)
Batch Index Error	The number of batch index requests that were rejected because of errors
Heap Efficiency %	The ratio of heap memory allocated (in kilobytes) to heap memory mapped (in kilobytes)
RW In Progress	The number of RW transactions in progress

The following system performance metrics are tracked by the plugin integration:

Metric name	Description
Dead Partitions	The number of dead partitions for the namespace
Memory Free %	The percentage of disk capacity free for the namespace
Unavailable Partitions	The number of unavailable partitions for the namespace
Client Delete Error	The number of client delete transactions that failed with an error
Client Read Error	The number of client read transactions that failed with an error
Client UDF Error	The number of failed UDF transactions initiated by the client
Client Write Error	The number of failed write transactions initiated by the client
Memory Used Bytes	Memory used in bytes
Pi Query Aggr Error	The number of aggregations failed due to an internal error seen by the node
Clock Skew Stop Writes	Indicates true if clock skew exceeds the tolerance for strong consistency
Stop Writes	Indicates true if the namespace is currently not allowing writes

Setup

Prerequisites

Ensure you meet the following requirements before installing the plugin:

Download and install the Site24x7 server monitoring agent (Linux | Windows) in the server where you plan to run the plugin.
Ensure you have Python 3 or a higher version installed on your server.
Execute the following command on your server to install the aerospike module: pip3 install aerospike

Installation

Overall stats
Namespace

Create a folder named aerospike_stats_monitoring.
Download the aerospike_stats_monitoring.py and aerospike_stats_monitoring.cfg files from our GitHub repository and place them in the aerospike_stats_monitoring folder. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/site24x7/plugins/master/aerospike_monitoring/aerospike_stats_monitoring/aerospike_stats_monitoring.py && sed -i "1s|^.*|#! $(which python3)|" aerospike_stats_monitoring.py wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/site24x7/plugins/master/aerospike_monitoring/aerospike_stats_monitoring/aerospike_stats_monitoring.cfg
To check if the plugin is working, execute the command below with appropriate arguments and check for a valid JSON output with applicable metrics and their corresponding values. python3 aerospike_stats_monitoring.py --hostname=<name of the host> --port=<port> --tls_enable=<true/false> --tls_name=<tls name> --cafile=<cafile path> --username=<username> --password=<password> --node_id=<node id>
Add the applicable configurations in the aerospike_stats_monitoring.cfg file. [Aerospike Stats Monitoring] hostname=<HOSTNAME> port=<PORT> tls_enable=false tls_name=None cafile=None username=<USERNAME> password=<PASSWORD> node_id=<NODE ID> logs_enabled=False log_type_name=<LOG TYPE NAME> log_file_path=<LOG FILE PATH>
Follow the steps in this article to learn how to run the Python script on a Windows server. This isn't needed for Linux.
Move the aerospike_stats_monitoring folder to the Site24x7 server monitoring plugin directory.
For Linux: /opt/site24x7/monagent/plugins/

For Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Site24x7\WinAgent\monitoring\plugins/

The agent will automatically execute the plugin within five minutes and display performance data in Site24x7.

To view the plugin monitor and associated performance charts:

Log in to Site24x7.
Navigate to Plugins and click the required monitor.

Create a folder named aerospike_namespace_monitoring.
Download the aerospike_namespace_monitoring.py and aerospike_namespace_monitoring.cfg files from our GitHub repository and place them in the aerospike_namespace_monitoring folder. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/site24x7/plugins/master/aerospike_monitoring/aerospike_namespace_monitoring/aerospike_namespace_monitoring.py && sed -i "1s|^.*|#! $(which python3)|" aerospike_namespace_monitoring.py wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/site24x7/plugins/master/aerospike_monitoring/aerospike_namespace_monitoring/aerospike_namespace_monitoring.cfg
To check if the plugin is working, execute the command below with appropriate arguments and check for a valid JSON output with applicable metrics and their corresponding values. python3 aerospike_namespace_monitoring.py --hostname=<name of the host> --port=<port> --tls_enable=<true/false> --tls_name=<tls name> --cafile=<cafile path> --username=<username> --password=<password> --node_id=<node id> --namespace=<namespace>
Add the applicable configurations in the aerospike_namespace_monitoring.cfg file. [Aerospike Namespace Monitoring] hostname=<HOSTNAME> port=<PORT> tls_enable=false tls_name=None cafile=None username=<USERNAME> password=<PASSWORD> node_id=<NODE ID> namespace=<NAMESPACE> logs_enabled=False log_type_name=<LOG TYPE NAME> log_file_path=<LOG FILE PATH>
Follow the steps in this article to learn how to run the Python script on a Windows server. This isn't needed for Linux.
Move the aerospike_namespace_monitoring folder to the Site24x7 server monitoring plugin directory.
For Linux: /opt/site24x7/monagent/plugins/

For Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Site24x7\WinAgent\monitoring\plugins/

The agent will automatically execute the plugin within five minutes and display performance data in Site24x7.

To view the plugin monitor and associated performance charts:

Log in to Site24x7.
Navigate to Plugins and click the required monitor.

Plugin Contribution

Feel free to contribute to our existing plugin and come up with suggestions or feedback on our Community.

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