Beanstalk

Plugin: python.d.plugin Module: beanstalk

Overview

Monitor Beanstalk metrics to enhance job queueing and processing efficiency. Track job rates, processing times, and queue lengths for better task management.

The collector uses the beanstalkc python module to connect to a beanstalkd service and gather metrics.

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

If no configuration is given, module will attempt to connect to beanstalkd on 127.0.0.1:11300 address.

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 Beanstalk instance

These metrics refer to the entire monitored application.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
beanstalk.cpu_usage	user, system	cpu time
beanstalk.jobs_rate	total, timeouts	jobs/s
beanstalk.connections_rate	connections	connections/s
beanstalk.commands_rate	put, peek, peek-ready, peek-delayed, peek-buried, reserve, use, watch, ignore, delete, bury, kick, stats, stats-job, stats-tube, list-tubes, list-tube-used, list-tubes-watched, pause-tube	commands/s
beanstalk.connections_rate	tubes	tubes
beanstalk.current_jobs	urgent, ready, reserved, delayed, buried	jobs
beanstalk.current_connections	written, producers, workers, waiting	connections
beanstalk.binlog	written, migrated	records/s
beanstalk.uptime	uptime	seconds

Per tube

Metrics related to Beanstalk tubes. Each tube produces its own set of the following metrics.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
beanstalk.jobs_rate	jobs	jobs/s
beanstalk.jobs	urgent, ready, reserved, delayed, buried	jobs
beanstalk.connections	using, waiting, watching	connections
beanstalk.commands	deletes, pauses	commands/s
beanstalk.pause	since, left	seconds

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name	On metric	Description
beanstalk_server_buried_jobs	beanstalk.current_jobs	number of buried jobs across all tubes. You need to manually kick them so they can be processed. Presence of buried jobs in a tube does not affect new jobs.

Setup

Prerequisites

beanstalkc python module

The collector requires the beanstalkc python module to be installed.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is python.d/beanstalk.conf.

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 python.d/beanstalk.conf

Options

There are 2 sections:

• Global variables
• One or more JOBS that can define multiple different instances to monitor.

The following options can be defined globally: priority, penalty, autodetection_retry, update_every, but can also be defined per JOB to override the global values.

Additionally, the following collapsed table contains all the options that can be configured inside a JOB definition.

Every configuration JOB starts with a job_name value which will appear in the dashboard, unless a name parameter is specified.

Config options

Name	Description	Default	Required
update_every	Sets the default data collection frequency.	5	no
priority	Controls the order of charts at the netdata dashboard.	60000	no
autodetection_retry	Sets the job re-check interval in seconds.	0	no
penalty	Indicates whether to apply penalty to update_every in case of failures.	yes	no
name	Job name. This value will overwrite the job_name value. JOBS with the same name are mutually exclusive. Only one of them will be allowed running at any time. This allows autodetection to try several alternatives and pick the one that works.		no
host	IP or URL to a beanstalk service.	127.0.0.1	no
port	Port to the IP or URL to a beanstalk service.	11300	no

Examples

Remote beanstalk server

A basic remote beanstalk server

remote:
  name: 'beanstalk'
  host: '1.2.3.4'
  port: 11300

Multi-instance

Note: When you define multiple jobs, their names must be unique.

Collecting metrics from local and remote instances.

Config

localhost:
  name: 'local_beanstalk'
  host: '127.0.0.1'
  port: 11300

remote_job:
  name: 'remote_beanstalk'
  host: '192.0.2.1'
  port: 113000

Troubleshooting

Debug Mode

To troubleshoot issues with the beanstalk collector, run the python.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output should give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.

• Navigate to the plugins.d directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that's not the case on your system, open netdata.conf and look for the plugins setting under [directories].

  cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/

• Switch to the netdata user.

  sudo -u netdata -s

• Run the python.d.plugin to debug the collector:

  ./python.d.plugin beanstalk debug trace