Memcached

Metrics, Dashboards, Alerts and more for Memcached Integration in Sysdig Monitor.
Memcached

This integration is enabled by default.

Versions supported: > v1.5

This integration uses a sidecar exporter that is available in UBI or scratch base image.

This integration has 13 metrics.

Timeseries generated: 20 series per instance

List of Alerts

AlertDescriptionFormat
[Memcached] Instance DownInstance is not reachablePrometheus
[Memcached] Low UpTimeUptime of less than 1 hour in a Memcached instancePrometheus
[Memcached] Connection ThrottledConnection throttled because max number of requests per event process reachedPrometheus
[Memcached] Connections Close To The Limit 85%The mumber of connections are close to the limitPrometheus
[Memcached] Connections Limit ReachedReached the number of maximum connections and caused a connection errorPrometheus

List of Dashboards

Memcached

The dashboard provides information on the status and performance of the Memcached instance. Memcached

List of Metrics

Metric name
memcached_commands_total
memcached_connections_listener_disabled_total
memcached_connections_yielded_total
memcached_current_bytes
memcached_current_connections
memcached_current_items
memcached_items_evicted_total
memcached_items_reclaimed_total
memcached_items_total
memcached_limit_bytes
memcached_max_connections
memcached_up
memcached_uptime_seconds

Preparing the Integration

No preparations are required for this integration.

Installing

An automated wizard is present in the Monitoring Integrations in Sysdig Monitor. However, you can also use this Helm chart for expert users: https://github.com/sysdiglabs/integrations-charts/tree/main/charts/memcached-exporter

Agents Configuration

This is the default agent job for this integration:

- job_name: memcached-default
  tls_config:
    insecure_skip_verify: true
  kubernetes_sd_configs:
  - role: pod
  relabel_configs:
  - action: keep
    source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_host_ip]
    regex: __HOSTIPS__
  - action: keep
    source_labels:
    - __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_promcat_sysdig_com_integration_type
    regex: "memcached"
  - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_phase]
    action: keep
    regex: Running
  - action: replace
    source_labels: [__address__, __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_promcat_sysdig_com_port]
    regex: ([^:]+)(?::\d+)?;(\d+)
    replacement: $1:$2
    target_label: __address__
  - action: replace
    source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_uid]
    target_label: sysdig_k8s_pod_uid
  - action: replace
    source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_container_name]
    target_label: sysdig_k8s_pod_container_name
  metric_relabel_configs:
  - source_labels: [__name__]
    regex: (memcached_commands_total|memcached_connections_listener_disabled_total|memcached_connections_yielded_total|memcached_current_bytes|memcached_current_connections|memcached_current_items|memcached_items_evicted_total|memcached_items_reclaimed_total|memcached_items_total|memcached_limit_bytes|memcached_max_connections|memcached_up|memcached_uptime_seconds)
    action: keep