fluent-gcprofiler

Using fluent-gcprofiler, you can start and stop GC::Profiler dynamically from outside of fluentd without any configuration changes.

$ fluent-gem install fluent-gcprofiler

in_debug_agent plugin is required to be enabled.

<source>
  type debug_agent
  port 24230
</source>

GC::Profiler is a ruby built-in profiler, you do not need to install another gem.

Start

$ fluent-gcprofiler start -h localhost -p 24230

Stop and write a profiling result.

$ fluent-gcprofiler stop -h localhost -p 24230 -o /tmp/fluent-gcprofiler.txt

/tmp/fluent-gcprofiler.txt as default:

GC 21 invokes.
Index    Invoke Time(sec)       Use Size(byte)     Total Size(byte)         Total Object                    GC Time(ms)
    1               0.452               722640              1668720                83436         5.05216200000002046977
    2               0.458               722600              1668720                83436         3.76476800000001832203

MEMO: Invoke Time is the elapsed CPU time from ruby starts.

See CHANGELOG.md

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/sonots/fluent-gcprofiler/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

See LICENSE.txt