64k metric "system_network_interface_io_receive_rate" different than asg perf or cpview

[Alexander_Wilke]

Hello,

I think I am using a dashboard which was provided here in the community by @Kaspars_Zibarts  or from the sk.

I am not sure if I modified that query or not however it looks like this:

system_network_interface_io_receive_rate{environment=~"Default", host_name=~"l999gnfw0101q-ch01-01", interface="TOTAL"}

The result I get from this query does not fit the results from:

asg perf -v -p and blade 1_01

cpview on blade 1_01

The query does not represent ther overall chassis thorughput, too.

Unfortunately it s hard to compare the results because asg perf and cpview are updating the values more frequently than skyline sends data to Prometheus (15s).

I think "system_network_interface_io_receive_rate" is roughly 2x the throughput on the SGM shown by cpview or asg perf.

I use the same query for 16200 or 26000 ClusterXL environments and there it looks like the values match between skyline and cpview.

PS:
In addition I receive metrics with the metrics name "system_network_interface_rx_throughput_bs". The represent exactly the same value but different name. The documentation does list this metric.

Introduction (checkpoint.com)

Any observations from your site?

[skeutgen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

we had a similar issue in our VSX environment. I've investigated a bit and found out, that if we just use the default query which includes all VS the VS ID 0 delivers the same data as some VS. So we created a query to exclude data from VS0 like so:

sum by (interface) (system_network_interface_io_receive_rate{environment=~"$d_environment", service_namespace!="vs_id_0", interface!~"TOTAL|lo"})

This solved our issues and allowed for correct graphs.

Cheers,

Sascha

[Alexander_Wilke]

Hello,

I think I found the root cause for non-VSX environments. The "TOTAL" seems to include BPEth0 and BPEth1 on scalable plattforms.

For non Maestro/64k I use this alert rule to alert if throughput per SGM/device is higher than 6Gbit/s:

ceil(

    (avg_over_time(system_network_interface_io_transmit_rate{host_name!~".*64k.*|.*maestro.*", interface="TOTAL"}[15m]) / 1024 / 1024 )

     >= 6000)


For maestro/64k devices we use only the BPEthX interfaces.

ceil(

        sum by (host_name)(avg_over_time(system_network_interface_io_transmit_rate{host_name=~".*64k.*|.*maestro.*", interface=~"BPEth.*"}[15m])) / 1024 / 1024

    ) > 6000