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kern.ipc.msq

kern.ipc.msq

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: kern.ipc.msq

Overview

Collect number of IPC message Queues

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.

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

Name Description Default Required
kern.ipc.msq Enable or disable IPC message queue metric. yes no

Examples

There are no configuration examples.

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 kern.ipc.msq instance

These metrics show statistics IPC messages statistics.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
system.ipc_msq_queues queues queues
system.ipc_msq_messages messages messages
system.ipc_msq_size allocated, used bytes

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

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