gearman-load-logger

gearman-load-logger queries the gearman server at an interval and outputs that information to logs for further querying.

Motivation

Gearman as a service does not provide much visibility, and due to its binary protocol can be difficult to easily query. We found ourselves running queries by hand to find out how many workers were running or how many jobs were queued. Instead, we'd like to have a process watch these parameters for us and output to a common format to use for monitoring and alerting elsewhere in our system.

Features

The script outputs in kayvee format:

• total jobs queued (total)
• currently running jobs (running)
• workers available to process jobs, including those currently running jobs (workers)

Running

./gearman-load-logger --host yourgearmanhost.example.com --port 4730 --interval 1m

Note that you can usually rely on the default values of 4730 for the gearman port and 1 minute for the interval.

Dependencies

gearman-load-logger uses gearadmin and kayvee, and requires golang to be installed (tested with version 1.3).

However, it is easiest to just download from the releases page.

Vendoring

Please view the dev-handbook for instructions.