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This module is based on the Dropwizard framework for Java. One user told me about this framework and it’s cool stuff. Issue 128 talked about this feature. I added more cool features. Here are the features: healthcheck, profiling, statistics and tasks.

In v2.x, we plit toolbox into two pars, admin and task.

How to install

go get github.com/beego/beego/v2/core/admin

Healthcheck

It can check the health status of your application. E.g.: To check if database is available:

type DatabaseCheck struct {
}

func (dc *DatabaseCheck) Check() error {
    if dc.isConnected() {
        return nil
    } else {
        return errors.New("can't connect database")
    }
}

Then you can add it as a check item:

admin.AddHealthCheck("database",&DatabaseCheck{})

After this you can send get request to /healthcheck:

$ curl http://beego.vip:8088/healthcheck
* deadlocks: OK
* database: OK

It will return the database status accordingly.

Profiling

Monitoring the performance of running processes is a very good way to optimize performance and to look for issues in our application. E.g.: information of GC and goroutine.

Profile provides a easy entry point for you to debug the application. It uses the ProcessInput entry function to process the requests. Here are some debugging types:

  • lookup goroutine

    Print out the tasks of all goroutines which are currently running. You can easily see what all goroutines are doing.

    goroutine 3 [running]:
    runtime/pprof.writeGoroutineStacks(0x634238, 0xc210000008, 0x62b000, 0xd200000000000000)
        /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/pprof/pprof.go:511 +0x7c
    runtime/pprof.writeGoroutine(0x634238, 0xc210000008, 0x2, 0xd2676410957b30fd, 0xae98)
        /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/pprof/pprof.go:500 +0x3c
    runtime/pprof.(*Profile).WriteTo(0x52ebe0, 0x634238, 0xc210000008, 0x2, 0x1, ...)
        /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/pprof/pprof.go:229 +0xb4
    _/Users/astaxie/github/beego/toolbox.ProcessInput(0x2c89f0, 0x10, 0x634238, 0xc210000008)
        /Users/astaxie/github/beego/toolbox/profile.go:26 +0x256
    _/Users/astaxie/github/beego/toolbox.TestProcessInput(0xc21004e090)
        /Users/astaxie/github/beego/toolbox/profile_test.go:9 +0x5a
    testing.tRunner(0xc21004e090, 0x532320)
        /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/testing/testing.go:391 +0x8b
    created by testing.RunTests
        /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/testing/testing.go:471 +0x8b2
    
    
    goroutine 1 [chan receive]:
    testing.RunTests(0x315668, 0x532320, 0x4, 0x4, 0x1)
        /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/testing/testing.go:472 +0x8d5
    testing.Main(0x315668, 0x532320, 0x4, 0x4, 0x537700, ...)
        /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/testing/testing.go:403 +0x84
    main.main()
        _/Users/astaxie/github/beego/toolbox/_test/_testmain.go:53 +0x9c
    
  • lookup heap

    Print out information of current heap:

    heap profile: 1: 288 [2: 296] @ heap/1048576
    1: 288 [2: 296] @
    
    
    # runtime.MemStats
    # Alloc = 275504
    # TotalAlloc = 275512
    # Sys = 4069608
    # Lookups = 5
    # Mallocs = 469
    # Frees = 1
    # HeapAlloc = 275504
    # HeapSys = 1048576
    # HeapIdle = 647168
    # HeapInuse = 401408
    # HeapReleased = 0
    # HeapObjects = 468
    # Stack = 24576 / 131072
    # MSpan = 4472 / 16384
    # MCache = 1504 / 16384
    # BuckHashSys = 1476472
    # NextGC = 342976
    # PauseNs = [370712 77378 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
    # NumGC = 2
    # EnableGC = true
    # DebugGC = false
    
  • lookup threadcreate

    Print out information of threads:

    threadcreate profile: total 4
    1 @ 0x17f68 0x183c7 0x186a8 0x188cc 0x19ca9 0xcf41 0x139a3 0x196c0
    #   0x183c7 newm+0x27           /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:896
    #   0x186a8 startm+0xb8         /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:974
    #   0x188cc handoffp+0x1ac          /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:992
    #   0x19ca9 runtime.entersyscallblock+0x129 /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:1514
    #   0xcf41  runtime.notetsleepg+0x71    /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/lock_sema.c:253
    #   0x139a3 runtime.MHeap_Scavenger+0xa3    /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/mheap.c:463
    
    
    1 @ 0x17f68 0x183c7 0x186a8 0x188cc 0x189c3 0x1969b 0x2618b
    #   0x183c7 newm+0x27       /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:896
    #   0x186a8 startm+0xb8     /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:974
    #   0x188cc handoffp+0x1ac      /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:992
    #   0x189c3 stoplockedm+0x83    /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:1049
    #   0x1969b runtime.gosched0+0x8b   /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:1382
    #   0x2618b runtime.mcall+0x4b  /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/asm_amd64.s:178
    
    
    1 @ 0x17f68 0x183c7 0x170bc 0x196c0
    #   0x183c7 newm+0x27       /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:896
    #   0x170bc runtime.main+0x3c   /Users/astaxie/go/src/pkg/runtime/proc.c:191
    
    
    1 @
    
  • lookup block

    Print out information of block:

    --- contention:
    cycles/second=2294781025
    
  • start cpuprof

    Start recording cpuprof info into created file cpu-pid.pprof.

  • stop cpuprof

    Stop recording.

  • get memprof

    Start recording memprof into created file mem-pid.memprof

  • gc summary

    Check GC status:

    NumGC:2 Pause:54.54us Pause(Avg):170.82us Overhead:177.49% Alloc:248.97K Sys:3.88M Alloc(Rate):1.23G/s Histogram:287.09us 287.09us 287.09us 
    

Statistics

Look at this picture, what do you think? It’s cool, right? admin module supports it.

How can I use the statistics? Add statistics like this:

admin.StatisticsMap.AddStatistics("POST", "/api/user", "&admin.user", time.Duration(2000))
admin.StatisticsMap.AddStatistics("POST", "/api/user", "&admin.user", time.Duration(120000))
admin.StatisticsMap.AddStatistics("GET", "/api/user", "&admin.user", time.Duration(13000))
admin.StatisticsMap.AddStatistics("POST", "/api/admin", "&admin.user", time.Duration(14000))
admin.StatisticsMap.AddStatistics("POST", "/api/user/astaxie", "&admin.user", time.Duration(12000))
admin.StatisticsMap.AddStatistics("POST", "/api/user/xiemengjun", "&admin.user", time.Duration(13000))
admin.StatisticsMap.AddStatistics("DELETE", "/api/user", "&admin.user", time.Duration(1400))

Get statistics information:

admin.StatisticsMap.GetMap(os.Stdout)   

Here is the output:

| requestUrl                                        | method     | times            | used             | max used         | min used         | avg used         |
| /api/user                                         | POST       |  2               | 122.00us         | 120.00us         | 2.00us           | 61.00us          |
| /api/user                                         | GET        |  1               | 13.00us          | 13.00us          | 13.00us          | 13.00us          |
| /api/user                                         | DELETE     |  1               | 1.40us           | 1.40us           | 1.40us           | 1.40us           |
| /api/admin                                        | POST       |  1               | 14.00us          | 14.00us          | 14.00us          | 14.00us          |
| /api/user/astaxie                                 | POST       |  1               | 12.00us          | 12.00us          | 12.00us          | 12.00us          |
| /api/user/xiemengjun                              | POST       |  1               | 13.00us          | 13.00us          | 13.00us          | 13.00us          |   
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