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diff --git a/doc/administration/monitoring/performance/introduction.md b/doc/administration/monitoring/performance/introduction.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..79904916b7e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/administration/monitoring/performance/introduction.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +# GitLab Performance Monitoring + +GitLab comes with its own application performance measuring system as of GitLab +8.4, simply called "GitLab Performance Monitoring". GitLab Performance Monitoring is available in both the +Community and Enterprise editions. + +Apart from this introduction, you are advised to read through the following +documents in order to understand and properly configure GitLab Performance Monitoring: + +- [GitLab Configuration](gitlab_configuration.md) +- [InfluxDB Install/Configuration](influxdb_configuration.md) +- [InfluxDB Schema](influxdb_schema.md) +- [Grafana Install/Configuration](grafana_configuration.md) + +## Introduction to GitLab Performance Monitoring + +GitLab Performance Monitoring makes it possible to measure a wide variety of statistics +including (but not limited to): + +- The time it took to complete a transaction (a web request or Sidekiq job). +- The time spent in running SQL queries and rendering HAML views. +- The time spent executing (instrumented) Ruby methods. +- Ruby object allocations, and retained objects in particular. +- System statistics such as the process' memory usage and open file descriptors. +- Ruby garbage collection statistics. + +Metrics data is written to [InfluxDB][influxdb] over [UDP][influxdb-udp]. Stored +data can be visualized using [Grafana][grafana] or any other application that +supports reading data from InfluxDB. Alternatively data can be queried using the +InfluxDB CLI. + +## Metric Types + +Two types of metrics are collected: + +1. Transaction specific metrics. +1. Sampled metrics, collected at a certain interval in a separate thread. + +### Transaction Metrics + +Transaction metrics are metrics that can be associated with a single +transaction. This includes statistics such as the transaction duration, timings +of any executed SQL queries, time spent rendering HAML views, etc. These metrics +are collected for every Rack request and Sidekiq job processed. + +### Sampled Metrics + +Sampled metrics are metrics that can't be associated with a single transaction. +Examples include garbage collection statistics and retained Ruby objects. These +metrics are collected at a regular interval. This interval is made up out of two +parts: + +1. A user defined interval. +1. A randomly generated offset added on top of the interval, the same offset + can't be used twice in a row. + +The actual interval can be anywhere between a half of the defined interval and a +half above the interval. For example, for a user defined interval of 15 seconds +the actual interval can be anywhere between 7.5 and 22.5. The interval is +re-generated for every sampling run instead of being generated once and re-used +for the duration of the process' lifetime. + +[influxdb]: https://influxdata.com/time-series-platform/influxdb/ +[influxdb-udp]: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v0.9/write_protocols/udp/ +[grafana]: http://grafana.org/ |