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Golang heap metricset
editGolang heap metricset
editThis functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
The heap
metricset of the Golang module collects the memstats information from the expvar API.
Fields
editFor a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.
Here is an example document generated by this metricset:
{ "@timestamp": "2017-02-22T08:29:22.819Z", "beat": { "hostname": "MacBook-Pro.local", "name": "MacBook-Pro.local", "version": "6.0.0-alpha1" }, "golang": { "heap": { "allocations": { "active": 20619264, "allocated": 19317104, "frees": 56786, "idle": 2383872, "mallocs": 77939, "objects": 21153, "total": 42590064 }, "cmdline": "./bin/gopa --pprof", "gc": { "cpu_fraction": 0.000006, "next_gc_limit": 33694576, "pause": { "avg": { "ns": 0 }, "count": 0, "max": { "ns": 0 }, "sum": { "ns": 0 } }, "total_count": 7, "total_pause": { "ns": 527378 } }, "system": { "obtained": 23003136, "released": 0, "stack": 1114112, "total": 28956920 } } }, "metricset": { "host": "localhost:6060", "module": "golang", "name": "heap", "rtt": 1159 }, "type": "metricsets" }