How do I run top and ps commands inside middlware pod on OCP?
Issue
- How do I identify high CPU utilization by Java threads on OCP?
-
Container images such as
jboss-webserver-5/jws56-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8
andjboss-eap-7/eap74-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8
, which are based onubi8
, do not haveprocps-ng
package as follows:[lab@master ~]$ oc rsh <mw-pod-name> sh-4.4$ top -b -n 1 -H -p <java-pid> sh: top: command not found sh-4.4$ ps sh: ps: command not found
-
CPU metrics such as
container_cpu_user_seconds_total
andcontainer_cpu_system_seconds_total
as cAdvisor metrics are collected by OpenShift Monitoring, but these metrics are in units of containers, and no cpu-usage metrics per thread in cAdvisor. - Scraping interval of cpu utilization that can be referred in OpenShift monitoring stack is
30
seconds, but I need to check cpu utilization at finer intervals to identify burst load for a couple of seconds. - Is Ephemeral Containers supported in OpenShift?
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
- 4.x
- 3.x
- Middleware containers based on ubi8
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