vm.stats.vm.v_pgfaults

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: vm.stats.vm.v_pgfaults

Overview

Collect memory page faults events.

The plugin calls sysctl function to collect necessary data

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn't support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per vm.stats.vm.v_pgfaults instance

The number of page faults happened on host.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
mem.pgfaults	memory, io_requiring, cow, cow_optimized, in_transit	page faults/s

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is netdata.conf. Configuration for this specific integration is located in the [plugin:freebsd] section within that file.

The file format is a modified INI syntax. The general structure is:

[section1]
    option1 = some value
    option2 = some other value

[section2]
    option3 = some third value

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config netdata.conf

Options

Config options

Name	Description	Default	Required
vm.stats.vm.v_pgfaults	Enable or disable Memory page fault metric.	yes	no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.