About monitoring Memory statistics for DP

[licenselu]

Hi all,

How can I monitor memory statistics on dataplane from the CLI (not SNMP)  ??

Regards,

HA

[BPry]

@licenselu,

'show system resources' will show the total, used, and free memory stats right at the top of the response. 

[LukeBullimore]

Hey @BPry

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't show system resources to view management plane related processes?

For viewing dataplane health I would use the "show system resources follow" command. For historic logs you would then use the "dp-monitor" log (> less dp-log dp-monitor.log)

[licenselu]

Hello,

The less mp-log dp-monitor.log command generates a massive output values !!

Which counter indique the memory used on the DP ?

PS: In fact, show system resources gives the mem on the MP...

Regards,

HA

[LukeBullimore]

Hey @licenselu

In the output from the dp-monitor, you'd want to start reading from "malloc allocator".

If you have access to PANTS or AutoAssistant tools then you can drop a tech support file in there and generate some cool graphs based on DP MEM utilisation as an aggregate or a per process basis.