eBPF process (collector improvements) (#11643)

1 files changed, 50 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/web/gui/dashboard_info.js b/web/gui/dashboard_info.js
index 6d878ba031..522003da9c 100644
--- a/web/gui/dashboard_info.js
+++ b/web/gui/dashboard_info.js
@@ -1310,6 +1310,26 @@ netdataDashboard.context = {
         info: 'The amount of time the system has been running, including time spent in suspend.'
     },
 
+    'system.process_thread': {
+        title : 'Task creation',
+        info: 'Number of times that either <a href="https://www.ece.uic.edu/~yshi1/linux/lkse/node4.html#SECTION00421000000000000000" target="_blank">do_fork</a>, or <code>kernel_clone</code> if you are running kernel newer than 5.9.16, is called to create a new task, which is the common name used to define process and tasks inside the kernel. Netdata identifies the threads monitoring tracepoint <code>sched_process_fork</code>. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
+    },
+
+    'system.exit': {
+        title : 'Exit monitoring',
+        info: 'Calls for the functions responsible for closing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">do_exit</a>) and releasing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">release_task</a>) tasks. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
+    },
+
+    'system.task_error': {
+        title : 'Task error',
+        info: 'Number of errors to create a new process or thread. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
+    },
+
+    'system.process_status': {
+        title : 'Task status',
+        info: 'Difference between the number of process created and the number of threads created per period(<code>process</code> dimension), it also shows the number of possible zombie process running on system. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
+    },
+
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     // CPU charts
 
@@ -2543,15 +2563,23 @@ netdataDashboard.context = {
     },
 
     'apps.process_create': {
-        info: 'Calls to either <a href="https://programming.vip/docs/the-execution-procedure-of-do_fork-function-in-linux.html" target="_blank">do_fork</a>, or <code>kernel_clone</code> if you are running kernel newer than 5.9.16, to create a new task, which is the common name used to define process and tasks inside the kernel. Netdata identifies the process by counting the number of calls to <a href="https://linux.die.net/man/2/clone" target="_blank">sys_clone</a> that do not have the flag <code>CLONE_THREAD</code> set.'
+        info: 'Calls to either <a href="https://programming.vip/docs/the-execution-procedure-of-do_fork-function-in-linux.html" target="_blank">do_fork</a>, or <code>kernel_clone</code> if you are running kernel newer than 5.9.16, to create a new task, which is the common name used to define process and tasks inside the kernel. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
     },
 
     'apps.thread_create': {
-        info: 'Calls to either <a href="https://programming.vip/docs/the-execution-procedure-of-do_fork-function-in-linux.html" target="_blank">do_fork</a>, or <code>kernel_clone</code> if you are running kernel newer than 5.9.16, to create a new task, which is the common name used to define process and tasks inside the kernel. Netdata identifies the threads by counting the number of calls to <a  href="https://linux.die.net/man/2/clone" target="_blank">sys_clone</a> that have the flag <code>CLONE_THREAD</code> set.'
+        info: 'Calls to either <a href="https://programming.vip/docs/the-execution-procedure-of-do_fork-function-in-linux.html" target="_blank">do_fork</a>, or <code>kernel_clone</code> if you are running kernel newer than 5.9.16, to create a new task, which is the common name used to define process and tasks inside the kernel. Netdata identifies the threads monitoring tracepoint <code>sched_process_fork</code>. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
+    },
+
+    'apps.task_exit': {
+        info: 'Calls to the function responsible for closing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">do_exit</a>) tasks. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
     },
 
     'apps.task_close': {
-        info: 'Calls to the functions responsible for closing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">do_exit</a>) and releasing (<a  href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">release_task</a>) tasks.'
+        info: 'Calls to the function responsible for releasing (<a  href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">release_task</a>) tasks. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
+    },
+
+    'apps.task_error': {
+        info: 'Number of errors to create a new process or thread. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
     },
 
     'apps.total_bandwidth_sent': {
@@ -3890,10 +3918,19 @@ netdataDashboard.context = {
         info: 'Calls to either <a href="https://programming.vip/docs/the-execution-procedure-of-do_fork-function-in-linux.html" target="_blank">do_fork</a>, or <code>kernel_clone</code> if you are running kernel newer than 5.9.16, to create a new task, which is the common name used to define process and tasks inside the kernel. Netdata identifies the threads by counting the number of calls to <a  href="https://linux.die.net/man/2/clone" target="_blank">sys_clone</a> that have the flag <code>CLONE_THREAD</code> set.'
     },
 
+    'cgroup.task_exit': {
+        info: 'Calls to the function responsible for closing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">do_exit</a>) tasks.'
+    },
+
     'cgroup.task_close': {
-        info: 'Calls to the functions responsible for closing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">do_exit</a>) and releasing (<a  href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">release_task</a>) tasks.'
+        info: 'Calls to the functions responsible for releasing (<a  href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">release_task</a>) tasks.'
     },
 
+    'cgroup.task_error': {
+        info: 'Number of errors to create a new process or thread. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
+    },
+
+
     'cgroup.dc_ratio': {
         info: 'Percentage of file accesses that were present in the directory cache. 100% means that every file that was accessed was present in the directory cache. If files are not present in the directory cache 1) they are not present in the file system, 2) the files were not accessed before. Read more about <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/filesystems/the_directory_cache.html" target="_blank">directory cache</a>. Netdata also gives a summary for these charts in <a href="#menu_filesystem_submenu_directory_cache__eBPF_">Filesystem submenu</a>.'
     },
@@ -4151,8 +4188,16 @@ netdataDashboard.context = {
         info: 'Calls to either <a href="https://programming.vip/docs/the-execution-procedure-of-do_fork-function-in-linux.html" target="_blank">do_fork</a>, or <code>kernel_clone</code> if you are running kernel newer than 5.9.16, to create a new task, which is the common name used to define process and tasks inside the kernel. Netdata identifies the threads by counting the number of calls to <a  href="https://linux.die.net/man/2/clone" target="_blank">sys_clone</a> that have the flag <code>CLONE_THREAD</code> set.'
     },
 
+    'services.task_exit': {
+        info: 'Calls to the functions responsible for closing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">do_exit</a>) tasks.'
+    },
+
     'services.task_close': {
-        info: 'Calls to the functions responsible for closing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">do_exit</a>) and releasing (<a  href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">release_task</a>) tasks.'
+        info: 'Calls to the functions responsible for releasing (<a  href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">release_task</a>) tasks.'
+    },
+
+    'services.task_error': {
+        info: 'Number of errors to create a new process or thread. This chart is provided by eBPF plugin.'
     },
 
     'services.dc_ratio': {
@@ -5795,26 +5840,6 @@ netdataDashboard.context = {
     // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
     // eBPF
 
-    'ebpf.process_thread': {
-        title : 'Task creation',
-        info: 'Number of times that either <a href="https://www.ece.uic.edu/~yshi1/linux/lkse/node4.html#SECTION00421000000000000000" target="_blank">do_fork</a>, or <code>kernel_clone</code> if you are running kernel newer than 5.9.16, is called to create a new task, which is the common name used to define process and tasks inside the kernel. Netdata identifies the threads by counting the number of calls for <a href="https://linux.die.net/man/2/clone" target="_blank">sys_clone</a> that has the flag <code>CLONE_THREAD</code> set.'
-    },
-
-    'ebpf.exit': {
-        title : 'Exit monitoring',
-        info: 'Calls for the functions responsible for closing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">do_exit</a>) and releasing (<a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=370047&seqNum=4" target="_blank">release_task</a>) tasks.'
-    },
-
-    'ebpf.task_error': {
-        title : 'Task error',
-        info: 'Number of errors to create a new process or thread.'
-    },
-
-    'ebpf.process_status': {
-        title : 'Task status',
-        info: 'Difference between the number of process created and the number of threads created per period(<code>process</code> dimension), it also shows the number of possible zombie process running on system.'
-    },
-
     'apps.swap_read_call': {
         info: 'The function <code>swap_readpage</code> is called when the kernel reads a page from swap memory. Netdata also gives a summary for these charts in <a href="#menu_system_submenu_swap">System overview</a>.'
     },