ceph/doc/cephfs/health-messages.rst
Venky Shankar d01acd531a mds: record and dump last tid for trimming completed requests (or flushes)
CephFS clients include `oldest_tid` as part of the client request
to the MDS. This field is the tid of the oldest incomplete mds
request (excluding setfilelock request). The MDS uses this to
trim completed requests (and flushes). In one case, the ceph
cluster had an extremely high completed requests count, meaning,
for some reason the client was not advancing its `oldest_tid`
field, although, the MDS had successfully "safe replied" the
request back to the client.

This change adds a debug aid for recording and dumping this
field. It might be possible to fetch this from clients (if
not, we should add that!), but it makes sense to have this
information available from the MDS.

Partially-Fixes: http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/57985
Signed-off-by: Venky Shankar <vshankar@redhat.com>
2023-01-17 17:28:22 +05:30

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.. _cephfs-health-messages:
======================
CephFS health messages
======================
Cluster health checks
=====================
The Ceph monitor daemons will generate health messages in response
to certain states of the file system map structure (and the enclosed MDS maps).
Message: mds rank(s) *ranks* have failed
Description: One or more MDS ranks are not currently assigned to
an MDS daemon; the cluster will not recover until a suitable replacement
daemon starts.
Message: mds rank(s) *ranks* are damaged
Description: One or more MDS ranks has encountered severe damage to
its stored metadata, and cannot start again until it is repaired.
Message: mds cluster is degraded
Description: One or more MDS ranks are not currently up and running, clients
may pause metadata IO until this situation is resolved. This includes
ranks being failed or damaged, and additionally includes ranks
which are running on an MDS but have not yet made it to the *active*
state (e.g. ranks currently in *replay* state).
Message: mds *names* are laggy
Description: The named MDS daemons have failed to send beacon messages
to the monitor for at least ``mds_beacon_grace`` (default 15s), while
they are supposed to send beacon messages every ``mds_beacon_interval``
(default 4s). The daemons may have crashed. The Ceph monitor will
automatically replace laggy daemons with standbys if any are available.
Message: insufficient standby daemons available
Description: One or more file systems are configured to have a certain number
of standby daemons available (including daemons in standby-replay) but the
cluster does not have enough standby daemons. The standby daemons not in replay
count towards any file system (i.e. they may overlap). This warning can
configured by setting ``ceph fs set <fs> standby_count_wanted <count>``. Use
zero for ``count`` to disable.
Daemon-reported health checks
=============================
MDS daemons can identify a variety of unwanted conditions, and
indicate these to the operator in the output of ``ceph status``.
These conditions have human readable messages, and additionally
a unique code starting with ``MDS_``.
.. highlight:: console
``ceph health detail`` shows the details of the conditions. Following
is a typical health report from a cluster experiencing MDS related
performance issues::
$ ceph health detail
HEALTH_WARN 1 MDSs report slow metadata IOs; 1 MDSs report slow requests
MDS_SLOW_METADATA_IO 1 MDSs report slow metadata IOs
mds.fs-01(mds.0): 3 slow metadata IOs are blocked > 30 secs, oldest blocked for 51123 secs
MDS_SLOW_REQUEST 1 MDSs report slow requests
mds.fs-01(mds.0): 5 slow requests are blocked > 30 secs
Where, for instance, ``MDS_SLOW_REQUEST`` is the unique code representing the
condition where requests are taking long time to complete. And the following
description shows its severity and the MDS daemons which are serving these
slow requests.
This page lists the health checks raised by MDS daemons. For the checks from
other daemons, please see :ref:`health-checks`.
``MDS_TRIM``
------------
Message
"Behind on trimming..."
Description
CephFS maintains a metadata journal that is divided into
*log segments*. The length of journal (in number of segments) is controlled
by the setting ``mds_log_max_segments``, and when the number of segments
exceeds that setting the MDS starts writing back metadata so that it
can remove (trim) the oldest segments. If this writeback is happening
too slowly, or a software bug is preventing trimming, then this health
message may appear. The threshold for this message to appear is controlled by
the config option ``mds_log_warn_factor``, the default is 2.0.
``MDS_HEALTH_CLIENT_LATE_RELEASE``, ``MDS_HEALTH_CLIENT_LATE_RELEASE_MANY``
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message
"Client *name* failing to respond to capability release"
Description
CephFS clients are issued *capabilities* by the MDS, which
are like locks. Sometimes, for example when another client needs access,
the MDS will request clients release their capabilities. If the client
is unresponsive or buggy, it might fail to do so promptly or fail to do
so at all. This message appears if a client has taken longer than
``session_timeout`` (default 60s) to comply.
``MDS_CLIENT_RECALL``, ``MDS_HEALTH_CLIENT_RECALL_MANY``
--------------------------------------------------------
Message
"Client *name* failing to respond to cache pressure"
Description
Clients maintain a metadata cache. Items (such as inodes) in the
client cache are also pinned in the MDS cache, so when the MDS needs to shrink
its cache (to stay within ``mds_cache_memory_limit``), it sends messages to
clients to shrink their caches too. If the client is unresponsive or buggy,
this can prevent the MDS from properly staying within its cache limits and it
may eventually run out of memory and crash. This message appears if a client
has failed to release more than
``mds_recall_warning_threshold`` capabilities (decaying with a half-life of
``mds_recall_max_decay_rate``) within the last
``mds_recall_warning_decay_rate`` second.
``MDS_CLIENT_OLDEST_TID``, ``MDS_CLIENT_OLDEST_TID_MANY``
---------------------------------------------------------
Message
"Client *name* failing to advance its oldest client/flush tid"
Description
The CephFS client-MDS protocol uses a field called the
*oldest tid* to inform the MDS of which client requests are fully
complete and may therefore be forgotten about by the MDS. If a buggy
client is failing to advance this field, then the MDS may be prevented
from properly cleaning up resources used by client requests. This message
appears if a client appears to have more than ``max_completed_requests``
(default 100000) requests that are complete on the MDS side but haven't
yet been accounted for in the client's *oldest tid* value. The last tid
used by the MDS to trim completed client requests (or flush) is included
as part of `session ls` (or `client ls`) command as a debug aid.
``MDS_DAMAGE``
--------------
Message
"Metadata damage detected"
Description
Corrupt or missing metadata was encountered when reading
from the metadata pool. This message indicates that the damage was
sufficiently isolated for the MDS to continue operating, although
client accesses to the damaged subtree will return IO errors. Use
the ``damage ls`` admin socket command to get more detail on the damage.
This message appears as soon as any damage is encountered.
``MDS_HEALTH_READ_ONLY``
------------------------
Message
"MDS in read-only mode"
Description
The MDS has gone into readonly mode and will return EROFS
error codes to client operations that attempt to modify any metadata. The
MDS will go into readonly mode if it encounters a write error while
writing to the metadata pool, or if forced to by an administrator using
the *force_readonly* admin socket command.
``MDS_SLOW_REQUEST``
--------------------
Message
"*N* slow requests are blocked"
Description
One or more client requests have not been completed promptly,
indicating that the MDS is either running very slowly, or that the RADOS
cluster is not acknowledging journal writes promptly, or that there is a bug.
Use the ``ops`` admin socket command to list outstanding metadata operations.
This message appears if any client requests have taken longer than
``mds_op_complaint_time`` (default 30s).
``MDS_CACHE_OVERSIZED``
-----------------------
Message
"Too many inodes in cache"
Description
The MDS is not succeeding in trimming its cache to comply with the
limit set by the administrator. If the MDS cache becomes too large, the daemon
may exhaust available memory and crash. By default, this message appears if
the actual cache size (in memory) is at least 50% greater than
``mds_cache_memory_limit`` (default 4GB). Modify ``mds_health_cache_threshold``
to set the warning ratio.
``FS_WITH_FAILED_MDS``
----------------------
Message
"Some MDS ranks do not have standby replacements"
Description
Normally, a failed MDS rank will be replaced by a standby MDS. This situation
is transient and is not considered critical. However, if there are no standby
MDSs available to replace an active MDS rank, this health warning is generated.
``MDS_INSUFFICIENT_STANDBY``
----------------------------
Message
"Insufficient number of available standby(-replay) MDS daemons than configured"
Description
The minimum number of standby(-replay) MDS daemons can be configured by setting
``standby_count_wanted`` configuration variable. This health warning is generated
when the configured value mismatches the number of standby(-replay) MDS daemons
available.
``FS_DEGRADED``
----------------------------
Message
"Some MDS ranks have been marked failed or damaged"
Description
When one or more MDS rank ends up in failed or damaged state due to
an unrecoverable error. The file system may be partially or fully
unavailable when one (or more) ranks are offline.
``MDS_UP_LESS_THAN_MAX``
----------------------------
Message
"Number of active ranks are less than configured number of maximum MDSs"
Description
The maximum number of MDS ranks can be configured by setting ``max_mds``
configuration variable. This health warning is generated when the number
of MDS ranks falls below this configured value.
``MDS_ALL_DOWN``
----------------------------
Message
"None of the MDS ranks are available (file system offline)"
Description
All MDS ranks are unavailable resulting in the file system to be completely
offline.