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Support for exposing PSI metrics #3083

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@dqminh dqminh commented Mar 23, 2022

Fix #3052

This depends on opencontainers/runc#3358, so it should not be merged as-is, but we can review the structure and how metrics are exposed.

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Signed-off-by: Daniel Dao <dqminh89@gmail.com>
This adds 2 new set of metrics:
- `psi_total`: read total number of seconds a resource is under pressure
- `psi_avg`: read ratio of time a resource is under pressure over a
  sliding time window.

For more details about these definitions, see:
- https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/accounting/psi.html
- https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/psi/docs/overview

Signed-off-by: Daniel Dao <dqminh89@gmail.com>
@dqminh dqminh force-pushed the psi branch 3 times, most recently from 4c5c036 to 57ac945 Compare May 20, 2022 11:08
This adds support for reading PSI metrics via prometheus. We exposes the
following for `psi_total`:

```
container_cpu_psi_total_seconds
container_memory_psi_total_seconds
container_io_psi_total_seconds
```

And for `psi_avg`:

```
container_cpu_psi_avg10_ratio
container_cpu_psi_avg60_ratio
container_cpu_psi_avg300_ratio

container_memory_psi_avg10_ratio
container_memory_psi_avg60_ratio
container_memory_psi_avg300_ratio

container_io_psi_avg10_ratio
container_io_psi_avg60_ratio
container_io_psi_avg300_ratio
```

Signed-off-by: Daniel Dao <dqminh89@gmail.com>
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szuecs commented Nov 4, 2022

@bobbypage does this need to wait longer, anything missing?
I ask because there is an internal request to support this feature. :)

@dqminh likely it needs a rebase, maybe you can do it :)

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We are still waiting for opencontainers/runc#3358 to merged in runc...

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szuecs commented Nov 14, 2022

@bobbypage not sure should I take over the PR?
@dqminh thoughts?

john-liuqiming pushed a commit to cloud-native-observability/cadvisor that referenced this pull request Apr 4, 2023
Signed-off-by: liuqiming.lqm <liuqiming.lqm@alibaba-inc.com>
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SuperQ commented Apr 17, 2023

Fyi, it's unnecessary and not in best practices to expose the pre-computed averages in Prometheus.

Prometheus can compute arbitrary averages from the Total data.

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nmlc commented Aug 23, 2023

Any news here? Seems like runc PSI pr got merged

if includedMetrics.Has(container.PSITotalMetrics) {
c.containerMetrics = append(c.containerMetrics, []containerMetric{
{
name: "container_cpu_psi_total_seconds",
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name: "container_cpu_psi_total_seconds",
name: "container_pressure_cpu_seconds_total",

return getPSIValues(s, &s.Cpu.PSI, "total")
},
}, {
name: "container_memory_psi_total_seconds",
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name: "container_memory_psi_total_seconds",
name: "container_pressure_memory_seconds_total",

return getPSIValues(s, &s.Memory.PSI, "total")
},
}, {
name: "container_io_psi_total_seconds",
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name: "container_io_psi_total_seconds",
name: "container_pressure_io_seconds_total",

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if includedMetrics.Has(container.PSIAvgMetrics) {
makePSIAvgMetric := func(controller, window string) containerMetric {
return containerMetric{
name: fmt.Sprintf("container_%s_psi_avg%s_ratio", controller, window),
help: fmt.Sprintf("Ratio of time spent under %s pressure over time window of %s seconds", controller, window),
valueType: prometheus.GaugeValue,
extraLabels: []string{"kind"},
getValues: func(s *info.ContainerStats) metricValues {
switch controller {
case "cpu":
return getPSIValues(s, &s.Cpu.PSI, "avg"+window)
case "memory":
return getPSIValues(s, &s.Memory.PSI, "avg"+window)
case "io":
return getPSIValues(s, &s.DiskIo.PSI, "avg"+window)
default:
return nil
}
},
}
}
for _, controller := range []string{"cpu", "memory", "io"} {
for _, window := range []string{"10", "60", "300"} {
c.containerMetrics = append(c.containerMetrics, makePSIAvgMetric(controller, window))
}
}
}
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These metrics are unnecessary in Prometheus as we can compute averages from the counters. Please remove them to avoid excess metric cardinality.

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if includedMetrics.Has(container.PSIAvgMetrics) {
makePSIAvgMetric := func(controller, window string) containerMetric {
return containerMetric{
name: fmt.Sprintf("container_%s_psi_avg%s_ratio", controller, window),
help: fmt.Sprintf("Ratio of time spent under %s pressure over time window of %s seconds", controller, window),
valueType: prometheus.GaugeValue,
extraLabels: []string{"kind"},
getValues: func(s *info.ContainerStats) metricValues {
switch controller {
case "cpu":
return getPSIValues(s, &s.Cpu.PSI, "avg"+window)
case "memory":
return getPSIValues(s, &s.Memory.PSI, "avg"+window)
case "io":
return getPSIValues(s, &s.DiskIo.PSI, "avg"+window)
default:
return nil
}
},
}
}
for _, controller := range []string{"cpu", "memory", "io"} {
for _, window := range []string{"10", "60", "300"} {
c.containerMetrics = append(c.containerMetrics, makePSIAvgMetric(controller, window))
}
}
}

case "total":
// total is measured as microseconds
v = append(v, metricValue{value: float64(time.Duration(psi.Some.Total)*time.Microsecond) / float64(time.Second), timestamp: s.Timestamp, labels: []string{"some"}})
v = append(v, metricValue{value: float64(time.Duration(psi.Full.Total)*time.Microsecond) / float64(time.Second), timestamp: s.Timestamp, labels: []string{"full"}})
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Note for CPU, we don't need to expose "full". In practice, I've only found the "some" metrics to be useful. The "some" value is a superset of "full". IMO we should just include that to reduce the cardinality.

See the PSI docs:

CPU full is undefined at the system level, but has been reported since 5.13, so it is set to zero for backward compatibility.

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I would like to raise my opinion for exposing "CPU full" metrics on a container(/cgroup) level.

While "CPU full" is undefined at the system level, it reports values for other cgroups:

$ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/cpu.pressure
some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.05 avg300=0.20 total=68139509
full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=40148380

Exposing both might be useful to differentiate between cgroups that try to execute more work than compute time available to them (indicated through "CPU some") and cgroups that are fully blocked/stalled (maybe because of other cgroups and/or process priority, …; indicated through "CPU full").

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Interesting, thanks for this info. Are there kernel docs that document the per-cgroup behavior?

IMO this should be a separate metric name, rather than a label. The reason is that since some is a inclusive of full, doing something like sum(rate(container_pressure_cpu_seconds_total[1m])) would be confusing.

I would suggest these two metric names:

  • container_pressure_cpu_seconds_total
  • container_pressure_cpu_full_seconds_total

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szuecs commented Oct 31, 2023

@bobbypage can you set ok to test and do a review?
Would be great to see this in cadvisor

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Waiting for new runc release to include opencontainers/runc@1aa7ca8

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Can we have an update on this ? I would like to access the psi interface. Thanks guys.

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dims commented Feb 23, 2024

@MathieuCesbron did you see the previous comment (the one before yours?)

google.golang.org/grpc v1.33.2
k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.4.0
k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20211116205334-6203023598ed
)

replace github.com/opencontainers/runc => github.com/dqminh/runc v0.0.0-20220513155811-6414629ada8a
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Please remove this and use the upstream runc as-is.

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zouyee commented Apr 7, 2024

runc has released 1.2.0-rc.1

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zouyee commented Apr 17, 2024

@bobbypage not sure should I take over the PR? @dqminh thoughts?

@szuecs take over ?

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SuperQ commented Apr 17, 2024

I would be happy to take over this change, I would like to make sure it aligns well with best practices. As it is, it does not.

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szuecs commented Apr 17, 2024

There is only a release candidate so I would wait until there's a proper release.
I don't mind that someone else would do it.

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