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vm.vmtotal

vm.vmtotal

Plugin: freebsd.plugin Module: vm.vmtotal

Overview

Collect Virtual Memory information from host.

The plugin calls function sysctl to collect data.

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:vm.vmtotal] 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
enable total processes Number of active processes. yes no
processes running Show number of processes running or blocked. yes no
real memory Memeory used on host. 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 vm.vmtotal instance

These metrics show an overall vision about processes running.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
system.active_processes active processes
system.processes running, blocked processes
mem.real used MiB

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name On metric Description
active_processes system.active_processes system process IDs (PID) space utilization

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