3. Host Interface

The host URI contains information about the current operating system devices, such as the CPU, memory, disk and network. In addition, a host’s network hostname and system timestamp time are also exposed through the monitoring interface.

cpu

The cpu resource allows an administrator to view the CPU devices attached to the host. Selection of the cpu link in the host resource generates a list of all CPUs attached to the host, and also an aggregate all option.

Element Description
idle_percent Percent of CPU time that the system didn’t spend waiting on an I/O request to complete.
iowait_percent Percent of CPU time spent waiting for I/O requests to complete.
system_percent Percent of CPU utilization time which occurred while executing kernel processes.
user_percent Percent of CPU utilization time which occurred while running at the application level.

Table 3.1: CPU Statistics

Statistics Database Tables: HCPU_STATIC, HCPU_DYNAMIC

Admin path: /amps/host/cpu/<id>/<metric>

disks

The disks resource lists each of the disk devices attached to the host and permits the inspection of disk usage statistics. This information is a readily consumable version of the file /proc/diskstats. Statistics reported are based on the statistics monitoring update frequency (see the AMPS Configuration Guide for details). This means, for example, that reads is the number of disk-reads for the given statistics update interval.

Element Description
filesystem_free_percent Percentage of the filesystem currently free.
mount_point The mount point for this filesystem. .
in_progress Number of I/O requests waiting to be processed.
read_await Average read time completion in milliseconds.
write_await Average write time completion in milliseconds.

Table 3.2: Disks Statistics

Statistics Database Tables: HDISKS_STATIC, HDISKS_DYNAMIC

Admin path: /amps/host/disks/<id>/<metric>

memory

The memory resource gives details about the system memory statistics. All statistics reported are based on the current system statistics reported by examining the file /proc/meminfo. These statistics are updated based on the statistics monitoring update frequency (see Interval in AMPS Configuration Reference Guide).

Element Description
available The total amount of memory available. Calculated as the sum of free, buffers and cached.
buffers The amount of physical memory available for file buffers.
cached The amount of physical memory used as cache memory.
free The amount of physical memory left unused by the system.
in_use The amount of memory currently in use. Calculated as total - (free + buffers + cached).
swap_free The amount of swap memory which is unused.
swap_total The total amount of physical swap memory.
total Total amount of RAM.

Table 3.3: Memory Statistics

Statistics Database Tables: HMEMORY_STATIC, HMEMORY_DYNAMIC

Admin path: /amps/host/memory/<metric>

name

The name resource displays the network DNS name for the host.

Admin path: /amps/host/name

network

The network resource allows an administrator to examine networking interface statistics on the host. Selecting the network resource displays a list of the network interfaces attached to the host. Selecting one of the interfaces will list the available properties. Reported statistics are rate-based and based on the statistics monitoring update frequency (see the AMPS Configuration Guide for details). For example, collisions for interface eth0 would report the total number of collisions since the last statistics update interval.

Element Description
bytes_in Number of bytes received by the interface.
bytes_out Number of bytes transmitted by the interface.
errors Total errors both incoming and outgoing. This number includes packets dropped, collisions, fifo, frame, and carrier errors.
packets_in The total number of packets received by the interface.
packets_out The total number of packets sent by the interface.

Table 3.4: Network Statistics

Statistics Database Tables: HNET_STATIC, HNET_DYNAMIC

Admin path: /amps/host/network/<id>/<metric>

operating_system

The operating_system resource displays the operating system reported by the host.

Admin path: /amps/host/operating_system

utc_time

The utc_time resource displays the system time on the host. Note: the utc_time time reflects the time on the host that the HTTP GET was processed. This differs from all other resources in the host interface as their update frequencies are determined by the Interval tag in the configuration for the Admin interface. For more information on configuring the Administrative Interface and the Interval tag, see the AMPS Configuration Guide.

Admin path: /amps/host/utc_time