Metrics deep dive
Metrics are very useful for measuring the general health of individual nodes and provide better insights into the overall cluster when we are debugging performance-related issues. Metrics can also be filtered based on different time windows.
The Metrics dashboard comes with a lot of useful metrics that are shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 8.6 – Metrics dashboard showing various options in the dropdown
The Metrics dashboard includes the following categories:
- Hardware: Here, you can find the following pieces of information:
- CPU Percent: The percentage of the CPU being consumed by the CockroachDB process
- Memory usage: The memory used by the CockroachDB process
- Disk Read Mebibytes / second: The average number of bytes read from the disk by all the processes, expressed in Mebibytes per second
- Disk Write Mebibytes / second: The average number of bytes written to the disk by all the processes, expressed in Mebibytes per...
